Bill Text: NY S07814 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of the office of mental health and the director of the state office for the aging shall establish a mental home health services program for the aging to facilitate access to mental home health services to respond to identified mental health needs, including those needs that may have resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic, and for the aging or families that may not have access to mental health professionals in-person; makes related provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH [S07814 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07814-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7814

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    December 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK  --  read  twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to providing  mental
          home health care services to the aging

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

     1    Section 1. Section 5.05 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision (f) to read as follows:
     3    (f) The commissioner of the office of mental health and  the  director
     4  of  the  state office for the aging shall establish a mental home health
     5  care services program for the aging to facilitate access to mental  home
     6  health  care  services  to  respond  to  identified mental health needs,
     7  including those needs that may have resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic,
     8  and for the aging or families that may not have access to mental  health
     9  professionals  in-person.  Such  program shall provide up to five mental
    10  home health assessments, services and visits annually at no cost to  the
    11  individual,  for  acute  crisis  response,  mental health assessment, or
    12  initiation of care to reduce barriers and facilitate engagement in long-
    13  term care.
    14    As soon as practicable, but no later than August first,  two  thousand
    15  twenty-four,  the offices shall enter into an agreement with a vendor to
    16  create, or use an existing,  website  or  web-based  application,  as  a
    17  portal  available  to the aging and providers to facilitate the program.
    18  Such vendor shall be determined through a competitive bidding process.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    20  it shall have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00659-01-3