Bill Text: NY S07274 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the office of mental health to establish a training program for the diagnosis and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder for military veterans; the program shall include a component on military culture competency and shall be intended for the training of mental health providers and mental health clinicians; certification of the completion of the program may be provided to participants through the office.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-08 - SUBSTITUTED BY A793 [S07274 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07274-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7274

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 19, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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 a program for the
          diagnosis and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder

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

     1    Section 1. Section 7.17 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision (g) to read as follows:
     3    (g)  The  commissioner,  in cooperation with any other state agency or
     4  relevant stakeholder shall develop a training program to  be  posted  on
     5  the  office's  website for the diagnosis and treatment of post-traumatic
     6  stress disorder for military  veterans.  The  program  shall  include  a
     7  component  on  military culture competency and shall be intended for the
     8  training of  mental  health  providers  and  mental  health  clinicians.
     9  Certification  of  the  completion  of  the  program  may be provided to
    10  participants through the office.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02599-01-3