Assembly Bill A8023

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Creates interagency placement committees to recommend treatment and rehabilitation programs or strategies for youths with co-existing mental disabilities

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  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-A8023 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8537
Current Committee:
Assembly Mental Health
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Add §41.58, Ment Hyg L

2023-A8023 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates 10 interagency placement committees throughout the state to recommend treatment and rehabilitation programs or strategies for youths with co-existing mental disabilities; directs such committees to establish a process by which youths can be referred to such committees; directs such committees to submit a report annually to the governor and legislature identifying gaps in treatment and rehabilitation options, and any plans or recommendations to increase such options.

2023-A8023 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8023
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                            September 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BUTTENSCHON -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Mental Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to creating  intera-
   gency  placement  committees to recommend treatment and rehabilitation
   programs or strategies for youths with co-existing mental disabilities

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section
 41.58 to read as follows:
 § 41.58 INTERAGENCY PLACEMENT COMMITTEES.
   1. THERE IS HEREBY ESTABLISHED TEN INTERAGENCY PLACEMENT COMMITTEES IN
 THE STATE, ONE FOR EACH OF THE FOLLOWING REGIONS: LONG ISLAND, NEW  YORK
 CITY,  MID-HUDSON,  THE  CAPITAL  REGION,  MOHAWK VALLEY, NORTH COUNTRY,
 CENTRAL NEW YORK, THE SOUTHERN TIER, THE FINGER LAKES, AND  WESTERN  NEW
 YORK.  EACH SUCH COMMITTEE SHALL BE COMPRISED OF NINE MEMBERS, WHO SHALL
 BE FAMILIAR WITH THE REGION IN WHICH THEY ARE APPOINTED  AND  KNOWLEDGE-
 ABLE  OF  THE  SERVICES  UNDER  THIS  SECTION THAT ARE AVAILABLE IN SUCH
 REGION, AND WHO SHALL BE APPOINTED AS FOLLOWS:
   (A) THREE MEMBERS TO  BE  APPOINTED  BY  THE  COMMISSIONER  OF  MENTAL
 HEALTH;
   (B) THREE MEMBERS TO BE APPOINTED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF DEVELOPMENTAL
 DISABILITIES; AND
   (C)  THREE MEMBERS TO BE APPOINTED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF CHILDREN AND
 FAMILY SERVICES.
   2. THE PURPOSES OF THE INTERAGENCY  PLACEMENT  COMMITTEES  ESTABLISHED
 PURSUANT  TO  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF  THIS SECTION SHALL BE TO ENSURE THAT
 YOUTH WITH CO-EXISTING MENTAL DISABILITIES ARE BEING PROVIDED SUFFICIENT
 WRAPAROUND SERVICES TO MEET  THEIR  NEEDS.  EACH  INTERAGENCY  PLACEMENT
 COMMITTEE  SHALL  ESTABLISH  A  PROCEDURE UNDER WHICH FAMILIES, SCHOOLS,
 PROBATION CENTERS, AND OTHER APPROPRIATE ESTABLISHMENTS IN THEIR  REGION
 MAY REFER YOUTHS WITH CO-EXISTING MENTAL DISABILITIES TO SUCH INTERAGEN-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11920-01-3

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