Senate Bill S506

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Authorizes a community member or community ambassador to apply for involuntary admission of a person alleged to be mentally ill

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Mental Health Committee

  • Introduced
    • 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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2025-S506 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Mental Health
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §9.27, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S8754

2025-S506 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes a community member who resides in the community, or a community ambassador, to apply for involuntary admission of a person alleged to be mentally ill.

2025-S506 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    506
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in  relation  to  authorizing  a
   member  of the community or a community ambassador to apply for invol-
   untary admission of a person alleged to be mentally ill
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Tony's law".
   §  2.  Subdivision  (b)  of  section 9.27 of the mental hygiene law is
 amended by adding a new paragraph 12 to read as follows:
   12. A MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH THE PERSON  DWELLS  OR  RESIDES
 WHO  IS  OVER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN, OR A COMMUNITY AMBASSADOR IN COUNTIES
 OR LOCALITIES THAT HAVE AN ESTABLISHED COMMUNITY AMBASSADOR PROGRAM.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02158-01-5

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