Assembly Bill A11062

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to providing for mental health screening and creating a presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is proximately caused by employment for law enforcement officers and emergency medical personnel

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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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2019-A11062 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Mental Health
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 48 §§48.01 - 48.05, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A6641
2023-2024: A5135

2019-A11062 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for mental health screening and creates a presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is proximately caused by employment for law enforcement officers and emergency medical services personnel.

2019-A11062 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11062
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              October 7, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Frontus) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in  relation  to  providing  for
   mental health screening and creating a presumption that post-traumatic
   stress  disorder  is proximately caused by employment for law enforce-
   ment officers and emergency medical services personnel

   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 article
 48 to read as follows:
                                 ARTICLE 48
                EMERGENCY SERVICES PERSONNEL MENTAL HEALTH
 SECTION 48.01 DEFINITIONS.
         48.03 MENTAL HEALTH SCREENING.
         48.05 PRESUMPTION OF POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER.
 § 48.01 DEFINITIONS.
   AS USED IN THIS ARTICLE, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE THE  FOLLOWING
 MEANINGS:
   (A) "EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PERSONNEL" MEANS A LICENSED INDIVIDUAL
 WHO  FUNCTIONS  WITHIN  THE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES SYSTEM TO PROVIDE
 EMERGENCY AID, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, FIREFIGHTERS AND UNIFORMED
 SERVICES.
   (B) "LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER" MEANS A  SALARIED  AND  COMMISSIONED  OR
 CERTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER OF A POLICE OR SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT OR
 A  PEACE  OFFICER WHO IS PART OF OR ADMINISTERED BY THE STATE OR A POLI-
 TICAL SUBDIVISION OF THE STATE.
   (C) "UNIFORMED SERVICES" MEANS INDIVIDUALS EMPLOYED BY THE STATE OR  A
 POLITICAL  SUBDIVISION  OF  THE  STATE  WHO WEAR A DISTINCT UNIFORM THAT
 DIFFERENTIATES SUCH INDIVIDUALS FROM MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL  PUBLIC  AND
 WHOSE  PURPOSE  IS TO MAINTAIN PEACE, SECURITY, SAFETY AND HEALTH OF THE
 PUBLIC.
 § 48.03 MENTAL HEALTH SCREENING.
   ANY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER OR EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  SERVICES  PERSONNEL
 SHALL  BE  REQUIRED TO SUBMIT TO PRE-EMPLOYMENT MENTAL HEALTH SCREENINGS
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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