Bill Text: NY S06499 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 6499

Bill Title: Establishes an intensive addiction recovery and mental health integrated services pilot program to support two three-year demonstration programs that provide intensive addiction and mental health integrated services to individuals with significant addiction and mental health issues who have had multiple and frequent treatment episodes.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-06 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S06499 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06499-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6499--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 24, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  KENNEDY,  ASHBY,  MAY,  ROLISON -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Alcoholism and Substance Use Disorders -- recommitted to the Committee
          on  Alcoholism  and  Substance Use Disorders in accordance with Senate
          Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  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 an
          intensive addiction recovery and  mental  health  integrated  services
          pilot  program;  and  providing for the repeal of such provisions upon
          expiration thereof

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

     1    Section  1.   Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  "Topher's Law".
     3    § 2.   The mental hygiene law is  amended  by  adding  a  new  section
     4  19.18-d to read as follows:
     5  § 19.18-d Intensive  addiction  and  mental  health  integrated services
     6              pilot program.
     7    1. Within the funds appropriated to the office, a pilot program  shall
     8  be  established  to  support  two three-year demonstration programs that
     9  provide intensive addiction and mental  health  integrated  services  to
    10  individuals with significant addiction and mental health issues who have
    11  had  multiple and frequent treatment episodes.  One of the demonstration
    12  programs shall be located in a rural area and one shall be located in an
    13  urban setting as determined by the commissioner.  The services  provided
    14  shall  include  but  not be limited to mental health counseling services
    15  for the individual experiencing significant addiction and mental  health
    16  issues  and  their family, peer supports, and transportation assistance.
    17  Such services shall be primarily provided in the community  or  home  of
    18  such individual, as clinically and socially necessitated.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06362-02-4

        S. 6499--A                          2

     1    2.  Within one year after the conclusion of the demonstration program,
     2  the commissioner shall provide the governor, the temporary president  of
     3  the  senate, the speaker of the assembly, the chair of the senate stand-
     4  ing committee on alcoholism and drug abuse, and the chair of the  assem-
     5  bly  committee on alcoholism and drug abuse with a written evaluation of
     6  the demonstration programs established pursuant to  subdivision  one  of
     7  this  section.  Such evaluation shall, at a minimum, address the overall
     8  effectiveness of such demonstration programs,  identify  best  practices
     9  for  services  provided  under  the demonstration programs and any addi-
    10  tional services that may be appropriate  within  each  type  of  program
    11  operated,  regulated,  funded,  or  approved  by the office, and address
    12  whether continuation or expansion of the pilot  program  established  by
    13  subdivision  one of this section is recommended.  The written evaluation
    14  shall be made publicly available on the office's website.
    15    § 3. This act shall take effect April 1, 2025 and shall expire on  the
    16  ninetieth  day  following  the  submission  of   the report provided for
    17  pursuant to subdivision 2 of section 19.18-d of the mental  hygiene  law
    18  as  added by section two of this act, when upon such date the provisions
    19  of this act shall be deemed repealed; provided that the commissioner  of
    20  the  office of addiction services and supports shall notify the legisla-
    21  tive bill drafting commission upon the occurrence of the  submission  of
    22  such  report  provided  for in section two of this act in order that the
    23  commission may maintain an accurate and timely effective  data  base  of
    24  the official text of the laws of the state of New York in furtherance of
    25  effectuating  the  provisions  of  section 44 of the legislative law and
    26  section 70-b of the public officers law.