Bill Text: NY S08159 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands the scope of the interagency geriatric mental health planning council to include the development of family support initiatives, the impact of Medicaid redesign, mental health housing programs and community based long-term care alternatives, certified community behavioral health clinic demonstration sites, treatment of those with behavioral disorders in long-term care, the development of behavioral health training programs in long-term care, behavioral health coverage in the managed long-term care program, the shortage of in-home services, technology, tele-mental health services, suicide risk, and building a generationally competent behavioral health workforce.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-11 - REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES [S08159 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08159-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8159
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 11, 2018
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        Introduced  by Sens. ORTT, SERINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Mental  Health  and
          Developmental Disabilities
        AN  ACT to amend the geriatric mental health act, in relation to expand-
          ing the scope of the  interagency  geriatric  mental  health  planning
          council
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision (c) of section 3 of chapter 568 of the laws  of
     2  2005,  constituting the geriatric mental health act, as amended by chap-
     3  ter 203 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (c) The council shall meet as often as necessary, but  not  less  than
     5  four  times  per calendar year, to develop annual recommendations, to be
     6  submitted to the commissioner of  mental  health,  the  commissioner  of
     7  alcoholism and substance abuse services, the director of the division of
     8  veterans'  affairs,  the  adjutant general and the director of the state
     9  office for the aging, regarding geriatric  mental  health  and  chemical
    10  dependence  needs. Such recommendations [may] shall address issues which
    11  include, but  are  not  limited  to:    community  integration,  quality
    12  improvement,  integration  of  mental  health  services with services to
    13  address alcoholism, drug  abuse,  [and]  health  care  needs,  workforce
    14  development,  family  support  [and],  the development of family support
    15  initiatives, finance, the impact of  Medicaid  redesign,  mental  health
    16  housing  programs  and  community  based long-term care alternatives for
    17  those with co-occurring psychiatric disabilities  and  chronic  physical
    18  illness  or  disabilities,  certified community behavioral health clinic
    19  demonstration sites, the treatment of those with behavioral disorders in
    20  long-term care, the development of behavioral health  training  programs
    21  in  long-term  care, behavioral health coverage in the managed long-term
    22  care program, the shortage of in-home services  for  those  with  mental
    23  disorders  including  changing  Medicaid  rules  regarding  payment  for
    24  in-home services, the use of technology,  tele-mental  health  services,
    25  suicide  risk, and building a generationally competent behavioral health
    26  workforce  through  training  programs  and  increasing  the  number  of
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14206-01-8
        S. 8159                             2
     1  licensed  behavioral  health  professionals  who  speak underrepresented
     2  languages including through the use of different licensing  requirements
     3  where a potential licensee speaks an underrepresented language.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.