Bill Text: NY S01567 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the office of temporary and disability assistance, in conjunction with the office of mental health and the office of children and family services, to develop a mental illness training course to be utilized by providers of temporary housing assistance to focus on recognizing signs and symptoms of mental illness.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-31 - PRINT NUMBER 1567A [S01567 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01567-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1567--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 12, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  SALAZAR,  BRISPORT,  GOUNARDES  -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Social  Services -- recommitted to the Committee on Social Services in
          accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to  mental  illness
          training in temporary housing

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Article 2-A of the social services law is amended by adding
     2  a new title 3 to read as follows:
     3                                   TITLE 3
     4                MENTAL ILLNESS TRAINING IN TEMPORARY HOUSING
     5  Section 47. Training to recognize  the  signs  and  symptoms  of  mental
     6                illness.
     7    §  47. Training to recognize the signs and symptoms of mental illness.
     8  1. The office of temporary and  disability  assistance,  in  conjunction
     9  with  the  office of mental health and the office of children and family
    10  services, shall develop a training course to be utilized by providers of
    11  temporary housing assistance. Such training course shall focus on  iden-
    12  tifying  best  practices  to  recognize the signs and symptoms of mental
    13  illness and providing referrals, as appropriate, to individuals who  may
    14  be suffering from a mental illness.
    15    2.  Providers  of  temporary housing assistance shall include, but are
    16  not limited to, a family shelter, a shelter  for  adults,  a  hotel,  an
    17  emergency apartment, a domestic violence shelter, a runaway and homeless
    18  youth shelter, or a safe house for refugees operating in the state.
    19    3.  Such  training  shall  be provided to all employees and volunteers
    20  working or volunteering at a provider of temporary housing assistance.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00514-03-4
        S. 1567--A                          2

     1    4. Providers of temporary housing assistance shall ensure at least one
     2  employee or volunteer who provides intake services and has received such
     3  training is at the facility at all times,  when  applicable  law,  regu-
     4  lation,  code,  or operating plan approved by a social services district
     5  or  the commissioner otherwise requires employees or volunteers to be at
     6  the premises.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.