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Assembly Bill A11677

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the definition of a qualified mental health professional for purposes of mobile crisis outreach teams

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2025-A11677 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Mental Health
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §9.58, Ment Hyg L

2025-A11677 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Amends the definition of a "qualified mental health professional" to include licensed mental health counselors and licensed marriage and family therapists for the purposes of members of an approved mobile crisis outreach team.

2025-A11677 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11677
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             September 2, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Berger) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the definition of
   a qualified mental health professional for purposes of  mobile  crisis
   outreach teams
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision  (d)  of  section  9.58  of  the
 mental  hygiene  law,  as amended by chapter 230 of the laws of 2004, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (2)  "Qualified mental health  professional"  shall  mean  a  licensed
 psychologist,  registered  professional  nurse,  LICENSED  MENTAL HEALTH
 COUNSELOR, LICENSED MARRIAGE AND  FAMILY  THERAPIST,  licensed  clinical
 social  worker  or a licensed master social worker under the supervision
 of a physician, psychologist or licensed clinical social worker.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
 completed on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16282-01-6

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