Assembly Bill A7525

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Establishes the child psychiatry access project within the office of mental health; establishes a gift for such purpose on personal income tax forms

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  • 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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2021-A7525 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3033
Current Committee:
Assembly Mental Health
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Add §7.42, Ment Hyg L; add §628-a, Tax L; add §89-j, St Fin L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S187
2011-2012: S3434
2013-2014: S3202
2015-2016: S2639
2017-2018: S2220
2019-2020: S3199
2023-2024: S7966

2021-A7525 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the child psychiatry access project; provides that the office of mental hygiene shall establish regional child psychiatry access projects across the state to provide primary care providers with timely access to child psychiatry consultations in order to assist such primary care providers in meeting the mental health needs of the children and adolescents and their families; establishes a gift for the child psychiatry access project on state personal income tax forms, the proceeds from which shall be deposited into a child psychiatry access fund for the funding of such projects.

2021-A7525 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7525
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 13, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. FRONTUS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Mental Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to establishing  the
   child  psychiatry access project; to amend the tax law, in relation to
   establishing a gift for the child psychiatry access  project;  and  to
   amend  the  state  finance  law, in relation to establishing the child
   psychiatry access fund
 
   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
 7.42 to read as follows:
 § 7.42 CHILD PSYCHIATRY ACCESS PROJECT.
   (A) THE OFFICE SHALL, WITHIN AMOUNTS APPROPRIATED THEREFOR,  ESTABLISH
 OR  MAY  CONTRACT  FOR  THE  ESTABLISHMENT  OF REGIONAL CHILD PSYCHIATRY
 ACCESS PROJECTS ACROSS THE STATE TO PROVIDE PRIMARY CARE PROVIDERS  WITH
 TIMELY  ACCESS TO CHILD PSYCHIATRY CONSULTATIONS IN ORDER TO ASSIST SUCH
 PRIMARY CARE PROVIDERS IN MEETING THE MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS OF  THE  CHIL-
 DREN AND ADOLESCENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES.
   (B)  REGIONAL  TEAMS SHALL CONSIST OF A CHILD PSYCHIATRIST WITH APPRO-
 PRIATE SUPPORT STAFF, AND BE ESTABLISHED TO  PROVIDE  CHILD  PSYCHIATRIC
 TELEPHONE  CONSULTATIONS TO PRIMARY CARE PROVIDERS WITHIN THE DESIGNATED
 REGION RESULTING IN ONE OF THE FOLLOWING, DEPENDING UPON  THE  NEEDS  OF
 THE CHILD PATIENT AND/OR FAMILY:
   1.  RESPONDING  TO THE PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN'S PATIENT SPECIFIC QUES-
 TIONS ABOUT BEHAVIORAL HEALTH;
   2. ASSISTING THE FAMILY IN ACCESSING ROUTINE, LOCAL BEHAVIORAL  HEALTH
 SERVICES, WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THERE MAY BE A WAITING PERIOD;
   3.  PROVIDING  TRANSITIONAL  SUPPORT  TO  THE CHILD PATIENT AND FAMILY
 UNTIL THE FAMILY CAN ACCESS ROUTINE, LOCAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES;
   4. MAKING REFERRAL TO A TEAM CHILD PSYCHIATRIST FOR AN  ACUTE  PSYCHO-
 PHARMACOLOGIC OR DIAGNOSTIC CONSULTATION.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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