Eric Adams will take his tin cup – and baggage – to Albany next year
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams always lands the plane, he says. Collaborating with other branches and levels of government is no easy feat, but just look at the City of Yes zoning deal and three years of messy fights with the City Council over budgets that all, eventually, got passed.
In the wake of deadly stabbings in Manhattan, Adams has also talked up an older bill he has previously pushed in Albany, which is sponsored by Assembly Member Ed Braunstein. The Supportive Interventions Act would codify looser criteria for when an individual can be involuntarily hospitalized. The legislation has stalled in the Assembly and lacked a companion bill in the state Senate, but state Sen. Jessica Scarcella-Spanton is expected to take it up next year. Mental health advocates have fought Adams’ push to expand involuntary removals of people facing mental health crises, but City Hall confirmed that the bill will be a priority in the upcoming session.
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