Bill Text: NY S02899 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of mental health to review all proposals by an agency to provide new services at a new facility, expand the size of existing facilities or change the type of services that are provided at facilities within a city of one million or more; provides a definition for the types of facilities subject to such review; directs the commissioner of mental health to issue a report regarding such review.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH [S02899 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02899-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2899

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 25, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in  relation  to  directing  the
          commissioner  of  mental health to issue a review and report regarding
          certain facilities

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

     1    Section 1. Section 5.05 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision (f) to read as follows:
     3    (f)  (1)  The commissioners of the office of mental health, the office
     4  for people with developmental disabilities and the office  of  addiction
     5  services  and  supports shall, in collaboration with the commissioner of
     6  the New York city department of homeless  services  and  the  chair  and
     7  chief  executive  officer of the New York city housing authority, review
     8  and issue a report concerning all proposals by an agency requesting to:
     9    a. enter into contract or similar agreement to provide services  at  a
    10  new location as a social services facility; and
    11    b.  to expand the size and/or change the type of services offered of a
    12  social services facility, within a city with a population of one million
    13  or more.
    14    (2) The review and  report  shall  focus  on  the  following  factors,
    15  including, without limitation:
    16    a. The proposed impact in the affected community.
    17    b.  The current level and concentration of all social services facili-
    18  ties in the affected area.
    19    c. The cumulative effect thereof; and specific suggestions,  modifica-
    20  tion and objections as expressed by the affected community.
    21    (3)  For the purpose of this subdivision, a "social services facility"
    22  shall include the following:
    23    a. ACS placement facilities. "ACS placement facilities" means  facili-
    24  ties,  certified  by  the  New  York state office of children and family

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 2899                             2

     1  services, for the care of youth placed in accordance with the provisions
     2  of the family court act and the regulations of the New York state office
     3  of children and family services, managed directly by the  administration
     4  for  children's services or under contract or similar agreement with the
     5  administration for children's services.
     6    b. City-administered facilities, "City-administered facilities"  means
     7  hotels,  shelters  and  other  accommodations  or  associated  services,
     8  managed by or provided under contract or similar agreement with any city
     9  agency, provided to individuals or families who need temporary emergency
    10  housing or assistance finding or maintaining stable housing.
    11    c. DHS-administered facilities.  "DHS-administered  facilities"  means
    12  city-administered facilities managed directly by the department of home-
    13  less  services or by a provider under contract or similar agreement with
    14  the department of homeless services.
    15    d. DYCD-administered facilities. "DYCD-administered facilities"  means
    16  city-administered facilities managed directly by the department of youth
    17  and  community  development  or  by a provider under contract or similar
    18  agreement with the department of youth and community development.
    19    e. HPD-administered facilities.  "HPD-administered  facilities"  means
    20  city-administered facilities managed directly by the department of hous-
    21  ing  preservation  and  development  or  by a provider under contract or
    22  similar agreement with the department of housing preservation and devel-
    23  opment.
    24    f. HRA-administered facilities.  "HRA-administered  facilities"  means
    25  city-administered  facilities  managed  directly  by the human resources
    26  administration or by a provider under contract or similar agreement with
    27  the human resources administration, excluding shelters  for  victims  of
    28  domestic violence managed directly by the human resources administration
    29  or  by  a  provider  under  contract or similar agreement with the human
    30  resources administration.
    31    g. Supportive  housing  facilities.  "Supportive  housing  facilities"
    32  means  affordable,  independent,  and  permanent  housing  with  support
    33  services for tenants, including but not limited to people who have  been
    34  homeless,  have  histories  of  substance  abuse, are coping with mental
    35  illness, have chronic illnesses such as HIV/AIDS, are young adults aging
    36  out of foster care,  are  homeless  veterans,  or  grandparents  raising
    37  grandchildren,  and  is  under contract with a city agency including but
    38  not limited to the department of health and mental hygiene and the human
    39  resources administration.
    40    (4) Within ninety days of the completion of a review conducted  pursu-
    41  ant  to  paragraph  one  of  this  subdivision, the commissioners of the
    42  office of mental health, the office for people with developmental  disa-
    43  bilities  and  the  office  of addiction services and supports shall, in
    44  collaboration with the commissioner of the New York city  department  of
    45  homeless  services  and the chair and chief executive officer of the New
    46  York city housing authority, shall issue a report and deliver a copy  of
    47  their  findings,  and  any  legislative  recommendations they deem to be
    48  necessary to the governor, the temporary president of  the  senate,  the
    49  speaker  of  the  assembly,  the chair of the mental health and develop-
    50  mental disabilities committee of the senate, and the chair of the mental
    51  health committee of the assembly.
    52    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.