Bill Text: NY S05163 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Designates services to be provided by a jail-based substance use disorder treatment, peer led recovery support services, and transition services program as essential medical care services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-30 - referred to alcoholism and drug abuse [S05163 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S05163-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5163 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 23, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Alcoholism and Substance Use Disorders AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to designating services to be provided by a jail-based substance use disorder treat- ment, peer led recovery support services, and transition services program as essential medical care services The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 19.18-c of the mental hygiene law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows: 3 6. Services to be provided by a jail-based substance use disorder 4 treatment, peer led recovery support services, and transition services 5 program pursuant to subdivision two of this section shall be deemed 6 essential medical care services. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04094-01-3
