Senate Bill S8820A

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to establishing a statewide person-centered mental health services work group

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Mental Health Committee


  • 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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2023-S8820 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9452
Current Committee:
Senate Mental Health
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene

2023-S8820 - Summary

Establishes a statewide person-centered mental health services work group to improve statewide mental health planning and outcomes to achieve a person-centered, prevention-first integrated and tiered system of care for holistic health and wellness.

2023-S8820 - Sponsor Memo

2023-S8820 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8820
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 15, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health
 
 AN  ACT  in  relation to establishing a statewide person-centered mental
   health services work group to improve statewide mental health planning
   and outcomes to achieve a person-centered, prevention-first integrated
   and tiered system of care for holistic health and wellness

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Statewide  person-centered  mental  health  services work
 group.   1.  There  is  hereby  created  person-centered  mental  health
 services  work  group  to  examine,  evaluate, determine, recommend, and
 oversee implementation of how to improve statewide mental  health  plan-
 ning  and  outcomes to achieve a person-centered, prevention-first inte-
 grated and tiered system of care for holistic health and wellness.
   2. The work group shall consist of twenty statewide members,  four  ex
 officio  members,  and  twenty-eight  regional  representative  members,
 appointed as follows:
   (a) Statewide members. Statewide members  shall  be  appointed  within
 sixty days of the effective date of this act:
   (i) three members shall be appointed by the temporary president of the
 senate, one of which must be a peer or consumer representative;
   (ii)  three members shall be appointed by the speaker of the assembly,
 one of which must be a peer or consumer representative;
   (iii) two members shall be appointed by the  minority  leader  of  the
 senate;
   (iv)  two  members  shall  be  appointed by the minority leader of the
 assembly;
   (v) three members shall be appointed by the  governor,  one  of  which
 must be a peer or consumer representative;
   (vi)  three  members shall be appointed by the council of local mental
 hygiene directors;
   (vii) two members shall be appointed by the behavioral health services
 advisory council; and
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14417-01-4
              

co-Sponsors

2023-S8820A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9452
Current Committee:
Senate Mental Health
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene

2023-S8820A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a statewide person-centered mental health services work group to improve statewide mental health planning and outcomes to achieve a person-centered, prevention-first integrated and tiered system of care for holistic health and wellness.

2023-S8820A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S8820A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8820--A
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 15, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. SEPULVEDA, MAYER, PARKER -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Mental
   Health  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as
   amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT in relation to establishing a  statewide  person-centered  mental
   health services work group to improve statewide mental health planning
   and outcomes to achieve a person-centered, prevention-first integrated
   and tiered system of care for holistic health and wellness
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Statewide  person-centered  mental  health  services  work
 group.    1.  There  is  hereby  created a person-centered mental health
 services work group to  examine,  evaluate,  determine,  recommend,  and
 oversee  implementation  of how to improve statewide mental health plan-
 ning and outcomes to achieve a person-centered,  prevention-first  inte-
 grated and tiered system of care for holistic health and wellness.
   2.  The  work  group  shall  consist of ten statewide members, four ex
 officio  members,  and  twenty-eight  regional  representative  members,
 appointed as follows:
   (a)  Statewide  members.  Statewide  members shall be appointed within
 sixty days of the effective date of this act:
   (i) two members shall be appointed by the temporary president  of  the
 senate, one of which must be a peer or consumer representative;
   (ii)  two  members  shall be appointed by the speaker of the assembly,
 one of which must be a peer or consumer representative;
   (iii) one member shall be appointed by  the  minority  leader  of  the
 senate;
   (iv)  one  member  shall  be  appointed  by the minority leader of the
 assembly; and
   (v) four members shall be appointed by the governor, one of which must
 be a peer or consumer representative.
   (b) Ex officio members. The commissioners of the office  of  addiction
 services  and  supports,  the office of mental health, the department of
 health, the New York city department of health and mental  hygiene,  and
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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