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Assembly Bill A9571

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Limits the amount of addiction and substance abuse facilities in the city of New York

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2021-A9571 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Alcoholism And Drug Abuse
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §19.17, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A6910

2021-A9571 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Limits the amount of addiction and substance abuse facilities to five within the jurisdiction of each community board in the city of New York.

2021-A9571 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9571
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 16, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. DICKENS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law,  in  relation  to  limiting  the
   amount  of addiction and substance abuse facilities in the city of New
   York
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision (b) of section 19.17 of the mental hygiene law,
 as  amended  by  chapter  596 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as
 follows:
   (b) The commissioner shall establish the  areas  which  each  facility
 under his or her jurisdiction shall serve and the categories of patients
 which each such facility shall receive, retain, or treat. IN CITIES WITH
 A  POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ENSURE THAT
 THERE ARE NO MORE THAN FIVE FACILITIES OPERATING PURSUANT TO THIS  ARTI-
 CLE  WITHIN  THE  JURISDICTION OF EACH COMMUNITY BOARD. The commissioner
 shall provide for priority of admission for persons whose children  have
 been  placed in foster care or are in jeopardy of being so placed pursu-
 ant to article ten of the family court act or article six of the  social
 services law.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14787-01-2

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