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                                  6945--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 14, 2021
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. STECK, WALSH -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse -- recommitted to the Committee
   on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse in accordance with Assembly Rule 3,  sec.
   2  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
   and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to  establishing  an
   addiction  recovery  supportive  transportation services demonstration
   program
 
   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
 19.18-a to read as follows:
 § 19.18-A ADDICTION RECOVERY SUPPORTIVE TRANSPORTATION  SERVICES  DEMON-
             STRATION PROGRAM.
   1.  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  DEVELOP AN ADDICTION RECOVERY SUPPORTIVE
 TRANSPORTATION  SERVICES  DEMONSTRATION  PROGRAM.  SUCH  PROGRAM   SHALL
 PROVIDE RECOVERY SUPPORTIVE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS WHILE
 SUCH  INDIVIDUAL  IS  RECEIVING TREATMENT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
 TREATMENT WITH AN INPATIENT, RESIDENTIAL OR OUTPATIENT TREATMENT PROVID-
 ER.  THE COMMISSIONER SHALL IDENTIFY AND ESTABLISH  WHERE  THE  RECOVERY
 SUPPORTIVE   TRANSPORTATION  SERVICES  DEMONSTRATION  PROGRAM  SHALL  BE
 LOCATED, PROVIDED THAT THERE SHALL BE AT LEAST ONE URBAN AND  ONE  RURAL
 DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM.
   2.  RECOVERY  SUPPORTIVE  TRANSPORTATION SERVICES SHALL BE PROVIDED TO
 ENSURE THE INDIVIDUAL IS ABLE TO RECEIVE TREATMENT, SERVICES AND PARTIC-
 IPATE IN OTHER ACTIVITIES THAT ARE A PART OF THE INDIVIDUAL'S  TREATMENT
 OR NECESSARY TO HELP MAINTAIN STABILITY TO CONTINUE THEIR RECOVERY.
   3. NO LATER THAN JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-THREE, THE COMMIS-
 SIONER  SHALL  PROVIDE  THE  GOVERNOR,  THE  TEMPORARY  PRESIDENT OF THE
 SENATE, THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY, AND THE CHAIRS OF  THE  SENATE  AND
 ASSEMBLY  COMMITTEES  ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE WITH A WRITTEN EVALU-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08112-04-2

 A. 6945--A                          2
 
 ATION OF THE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM. SUCH EVALUATION SHALL, AT A MINIMUM,
 ADDRESS THE OVERALL EFFECTIVENESS OF SUCH DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM, IDENTI-
 FY  BEST  PRACTICES  FOR  RECOVERY  SUPPORTIVE  TRANSPORTATION  SERVICES
 PROVIDED  UNDER  SUCH  DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM, AND SUGGEST ANY ADDITIONAL
 RECOVERY SUPPORTIVE SERVICES THAT MAY BE APPROPRIATE WITHIN EACH TYPE OF
 PROGRAM OPERATED, REGULATED, FUNDED,  OR  APPROVED  BY  THE  OFFICE  AND
 ADDRESS  WHETHER CONTINUATION OR EXPANSION OF SUCH DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM
 IS RECOMMENDED. THE WRITTEN EVALUATION SHALL BE MADE  AVAILABLE  ON  THE
 OFFICE'S WEBSITE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect June 1, 2022.