NY State Senate Bill 2019-S6315

Senate Bill S6315

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Establishes an LGBT youth and young adult suicide prevention task force; and provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Mental Health And Developmental Disabilities Committee

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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Delivered to Governor
Signed By Governor

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 08, 2020	referred to mental health and developmental disabilities returned to senate died in assembly
Jun 11, 2019	referred to mental health delivered to assembly passed senate
Jun 06, 2019	ordered to third reading cal.1229
Jun 04, 2019	referred to rules

Votes

- Jun 11, 2019 - Floor Vote
  S6315
  
  59
  
  Aye
  
  2
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  1
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Jun 11, 2019
      
      aye (59)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Akshar
      
      Amedore
      
      Bailey
      
      Benjamin
      
      Biaggi
      
      Boyle
      
      Breslin
      
      Brooks
      
      Carlucci
      
      Comrie
      
      Felder
      
      Flanagan
      
      Funke
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gaughran
      
      Gianaris
      
      Gounardes
      
      Griffo
      
      Harckham
      
      Helming
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Jackson
      
      Jacobs
      
      Jordan
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Kaplan
      
      Kavanagh
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Little
      
      Liu
      
      Martinez
      
      May
      
      Mayer
      
      Metzger
      
      Montgomery
      
      Myrie
      
      O'Mara
      
      Parker
      
      Persaud
      
      Ramos
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Ritchie
      
      Rivera
      
      Robach
      
      Salazar
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Savino
      
      Sepúlveda
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Skoufis
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Tedisco
      
      Thomas
      
      nay (2)
      
      Antonacci
      
      Ortt
      
      excused (1)
      
      Serino
  Jun 6, 2019 - Rules Committee Vote
  S6315
  
  19
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Rules Committee Vote: Jun 6, 2019
      
      aye (19)
      
      Benjamin
      
      Breslin
      
      Comrie
      
      Flanagan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Griffo
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Little
      
      Liu
      
      Martinez
      
      Parker
      
      Robach
      
      Savino
      
      Seward
      
      Stewart-Cousins

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2019-S6315 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A8306
Current Committee:: Senate Mental Health And Developmental Disabilities
Law Section:: Mental Hygiene
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2021-2022: S3083, A1548
2023-2024: S1250, A6599

2019-S6315 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes an LGBT youth and young adult suicide prevention task force; provides for the number of members, manner of appointment and the topics to be reviewed.

2019-S6315 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S6315

SPONSOR: SALAZAR
 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act to establish an LGBT youth and young adult
suicide prevention task force; and provides for the repeal of such
provisions upon expiration thereof

 
PURPOSE OF BILL:

This bill would establish the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
(LGBT) youth and young adult suicide prevention task force to examine,
evaluate and determine how to improve mental health and suicide
prevention for New York's LGBT youth and young adults up to the age of
24.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 of the bill establishes the LGBT youth and young adult task
force, which will consist of seven members appointed by the Governor
(1), the Senate Majority Leader (2), the Assembly Speaker (2), and the
Department of Health (2). The appointees will be required to have exper-

tise in issues related to LGBT youth and young adults.  The task force
is charged with studying current mental health practices and suicide
prevention efforts in New York, recommending mental health practices and
suicide prevention efforts to increase effectiveness across the state,
and determining potential reasons for the high number of LGBT youth and
young adult suicides. The task force is required to make a preliminary
report to the Governor and Legislature within 13 months of the effective
date of the bill, and present a final report within 22 months along with
legislative proposals as it deems necessary to implement its recommenda-
tions.

Section 2 of the bill is the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

According to the CDC, suicide is second leading cause of death among
young people ages 10 to 24. Lesbian, gay or bisexual youth are five
times more likely to have attempted suicide compared to heterosexual
youth, while the study by the National Center for Transgender Equality
found that 401 of transgender adults reported having made a suicide
attempt and 921 of these individuals reported having attempted suicide
before the age of twenty-five.

New York State must take action to protect its vulnerable citizens.
Establishing a task force would be the first step to understand the
causes of the mental illness and the ways to address those causes.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New Bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have
become a law and shall expire 2 years after such effective date when
upon such date the provisions of this act shall be deemed repealed.

2019-S6315 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6315
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               June 4, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to establish an LGBT youth and  young  adult  suicide  prevention
   task  force; and provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expi-
   ration thereof

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  LGBT youth and young adult suicide prevention task force.
 (a) There is hereby created the lesbian, gay, bisexual  and  transgender
 (LGBT)  youth  and young adult suicide prevention task force to examine,
 evaluate  and  determine  how  to  improve  mental  health  and  suicide
 prevention  for  New  York's  LGBT  youth and young adults up to age 24,
 consisting of seven members, each to serve until  two  years  after  the
 effective date of this act.
   (b)(1) Such members shall be appointed as follows: one member shall be
 appointed  by the governor; two members shall be appointed by the tempo-
 rary president of the senate; two members  shall  be  appointed  by  the
 speaker  of  the  assembly;  and  two  members shall be appointed by the
 commissioner of health. Appointments shall be made within sixty days  of
 the  effective  date  of  this act. Vacancies in the task force shall be
 filled in the same manner provided for original appointments.
   (2) All appointees shall  have  expertise  in  fields  or  disciplines
 related  to  mental health and knowledge related to LGBT youth and young
 adults. All appointments  shall  be  coordinated  to  ensure  geographic
 representation from the entire state.
   (3)  The  task force shall be chaired by the governor's appointee. The
 task force shall elect a vice-chair and other  necessary  officers  from
 among all appointed members.
   (4)  A  majority  of  the  members  of  the task force in office shall
 constitute a quorum for the transaction of business or the  exercise  of
 any  power or function of the task force. An act, determination or deci-

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

                                                            LBD11827-02-9

 S. 6315                             2
 
 sion of the majority of the members present during  the  presence  of  a
 quorum  shall  be  held to be the act, determination, or decision of the
 task force.
   (5)  The  task  force shall meet at least quarterly at the call of the
 chair. Meetings may be held via teleconference. Special meetings may  be
 called  by  the chair at the request of a majority of the members of the
 task force.
   (6) Members of the task force shall receive no compensation for  their
 services  but  shall be reimbursed for their actual expenses incurred in
 the performance of their duties in the work of the task force.
   (c) The task force shall:
   (1) study current  mental  health  practices  and  suicide  prevention
 efforts;
   (2)  recommend  mental health practices and suicide prevention efforts
 to increase effectiveness across the state; and
   (3) determine potential reasons for the high number of LGBT youth  and
 young adult suicides.
   (d)  The task force may establish such advisory committees as it deems
 appropriate on matters relating to the task  force's  functions,  powers
 and duties. Such committees shall be chaired by a task force member, but
 may  be  composed  of  task  force  members as well as other individuals
 selected by the task force to provide expertise of interest specific  to
 the charge of such committees.
   (e) The task force may, as it deems appropriate, request that studies,
 surveys,  or  analyses relating to the task force's powers and duties be
 performed by any state department, commission, agency or public authori-
 ty. All state departments, commissions, agencies or  public  authorities
 shall  provide  information  and advice in a timely manner and otherwise
 assist the task force with its work.
   (f) The task force shall submit a request  for  any  appropriation  as
 shall be necessary to enable the task force to perform its functions and
 duties  to  the governor, director of the division of budget, and chair-
 persons of the senate finance committee and the assembly ways and  means
 committee.
   (g)  The  task force may hold public hearings, take testimony and make
 investigations at such places as it deems necessary.
   (h) The task force shall make a preliminary report to the governor and
 the legislature of its findings, conclusions, recommendations and activ-
 ities already undertaken by the task  force,  not  later  than  thirteen
 months  after  the effective date of this act, and a final report of its
 findings, conclusions, recommendations and activities already undertaken
 by the task force, not later than twenty-two months after the  effective
 date of this act and shall submit with its reports legislative proposals
 as it deems necessary to implement its recommendations.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law and shall expire 2 years  after  such  effective  date
 when upon such date the provisions of this act shall be deemed repealed.

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