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Assembly Bill A2111

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires suicide prevention hotline centers to meet certain requirements for individuals who are in the perinatal period

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2025-A2111 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Mental Health
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §36.03, Ment Hyg L

2025-A2111 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires suicide prevention hotline centers to meet certain requirements for individuals who are in the perinatal period.

2025-A2111 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2111
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 15, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. FORREST -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Mental Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to requiring suicide
   prevention hotline centers to meet certain requirements  for  individ-
   uals who are in the perinatal period

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph 7 of subdivision (c)  of  section  36.03  of  the
 mental  hygiene  law,  as added by section 2 of part EE of chapter 57 of
 the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   (7) A designated hotline center shall meet the requirements set  forth
 by  New  York  State  and the NSPL for serving high risk and specialized
 populations including but  not  limited  to:  Black,  African  American,
 Hispanic,  Latino,  Asian,  Pacific  Islander,  Native American, Alaskan
 Native; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary, queer, and ques-
 tioning individuals; veterans; members of rural communities; individuals
 with intellectual and developmental disabilities; individuals experienc-
 ing homelessness or housing instability; INDIVIDUALS WHO  ARE  CURRENTLY
 IN  THE  PERINATAL  PERIOD; immigrants and refugees; children and youth;
 older adults; and religious communities as  identified  by  the  federal
 Substance  Abuse  and  Mental  Health Services Administration, including
 training requirements and  policies  for  providing  linguistically  and
 culturally competent care.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03998-01-5

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