Bill Text: NY S08244 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-25 - referred to alcoholism and drug abuse [S08244 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S08244-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8244

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 7, 2022
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        Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Alcoholism  and  Substance
          Abuse

        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.
    19    2.  Not later than June thirtieth, two thousand twenty-four, and annu-
    20  ally thereafter, the commissioner shall provide the governor, the tempo-
    21  rary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the chair  of
    22  the  senate  standing  committee  on  alcoholism and drug abuse, and the
    23  chair of the assembly committee on alcoholism  and  drug  abuse  with  a
    24  written evaluation of the demonstration programs established pursuant to
    25  subdivision  one  of this section.  Such evaluation shall, at a minimum,

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  address the overall effectiveness of such demonstration programs,  iden-
     2  tify  best  practices  for  services  provided  under  the demonstration
     3  programs and any additional services that may be appropriate within each
     4  type  of program operated, regulated, funded, or approved by the office,
     5  and address whether continuation  or  expansion  of  the  pilot  program
     6  established  by  subdivision  one  of this section is recommended.   The
     7  written evaluation shall be made  publicly  available  on  the  office's
     8  website.
     9    §  3.  This act shall take effect April 1, 2022 and shall expire March
    10  31, 2025 when upon such date the provisions of this act shall be  deemed
    11  repealed.