Bill Text: NY S05500 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes the adolescent suicide prevention advisory council.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-11-29 - APPROVAL MEMO.27 [S05500 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05500-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5500--B
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      April 3, 2017
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        Introduced by Sen. ALCANTARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop-
          mental  Disabilities  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  committee  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN  ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to establishing the
          latina adolescent suicide prevention advisory council
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section
     2  41.56 to read as follows:
     3  § 41.56 Latina adolescent suicide prevention advisory council.
     4    (a) There shall be established within the office of mental  health,  a
     5  council  on  latina  adolescent  suicide  prevention  to consist of nine
     6  members: three members shall be appointed by the commissioner of  mental
     7  health, three members shall be appointed by the speaker of the assembly,
     8  and  three  members shall be appointed by the temporary president of the
     9  senate. The commissioner of mental health shall designate the  chair  of
    10  the commission from among these nine members.
    11    (b) Duties of the council shall include, but not be limited to:
    12    (1)  Facilitating  the  coordination  of  services and resources among
    13  agencies involved in the delivery of services for suicide prevention for
    14  latina adolescents;
    15    (2) Monitoring the implementation of action plans developed by  mental
    16  health  agencies  via  their  five  year action plans and yearly funding
    17  priorities to ensure that latina adolescents  at  risk  of  suicide  are
    18  being adequately incorporated and served; and
    19    (3)  Determine  services,  resources  and  policies  that  may further
    20  address the needs of latina adolescents at risk of suicide  and  provide
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  them  as  per  the  required  annual  reports to the legislature and the
     2  governor.
     3    (c)  The council shall prepare and submit a report no later than Octo-
     4  ber first, two thousand eighteen, and annually thereafter, to the gover-
     5  nor and the legislature that recommends policies, legislation, and fund-
     6  ing needed to implement the action plans developed in  response  to  the
     7  need  to  address  latina adolescent suicide prevention into the state's
     8  health care delivery system.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    10  have become a law.