Bill Text: NY S06912 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Directs the office of mental health, in consultation and cooperation with the education department, to establish the urban youth gun violence reduction pilot program and appropriates $12,000,000 therefor; provides for the implementation of such program within 24 schools in 5 school districts in the state; provides each such school shall have an additional social worker; requires youth mental health first aid training be provided to teachers, professionals and after care workers in such schools; provides for the establishment of mental health curriculum in such schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-28 - PRINT NUMBER 6912A [S06912 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06912-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6912--A
                    IN SENATE
                                      March 4, 2016
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        Introduced  by Sen. HAMILTON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to  the  Committee  on  Finance  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  mental  hygiene  law  and the education law, in
          relation to establishing the urban youth gun violence reduction  pilot
          program;  making  an  appropriation  therefor;  and  providing for the
          repeal of certain 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.    This  act shall be known and may be cited as the "urban
     2  youth gun violence reduction pilot program".
     3    § 2. Title B of the mental hygiene law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     4  article 11 to read as follows:
     5                                 ARTICLE 11
     6                          URBAN YOUTH GUN VIOLENCE
     7                           REDUCTION PILOT PROGRAM
     8  Section 11.01 Definitions.
     9          11.03 Establishment.
    10          11.05 Social worker services.
    11          11.07 Youth mental health first aid training.
    12          11.09 Mental health curriculums.
    13  § 11.01 Definitions.
    14    As used in this article:
    15    (a)  "Gun  violence"  means physical injuries and deaths caused by the
    16  use of firearms.
    17    (b) "Mental health first aid" means the recognition of the symptoms of
    18  common mental illnesses and chemical dependency; the safe  de-escalation
    19  of crisis situations; and the initiation of timely referral of appropri-
    20  ate  students  to mental health and chemical dependency resources within
    21  the community.
    22    (c) "Program" means the  urban  youth  gun  violence  reduction  pilot
    23  program established in section 11.03 of this article.
    24  § 11.03 Establishment.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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