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Assembly Bill A2587

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Designates services to be provided by a jail-based substance use disorder treatment, peer led recovery support services, and transition services program as essential medical care services

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2025-A2587 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4956
Current Committee:
Assembly Alcoholism And Drug Abuse
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §19.18-c, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A6226, S5163

2025-A2587 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Designates services to be provided by a jail-based substance use disorder treatment, peer led recovery support services, and transition services program as essential medical care services.

2025-A2587 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2587
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 21, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. KELLES, SEPTIMO -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental  hygiene  law,  in  relation  to  designating
   services  to be provided by a jail-based substance use disorder treat-
   ment, peer led recovery  support  services,  and  transition  services
   program as essential medical care services
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 19.18-c of the mental hygiene  law  is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
   6.  SERVICES  TO  BE  PROVIDED  BY A JAIL-BASED SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER
 TREATMENT, PEER LED RECOVERY SUPPORT SERVICES, AND  TRANSITION  SERVICES
 PROGRAM  PURSUANT  TO  SUBDIVISION  TWO  OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE DEEMED
 ESSENTIAL MEDICAL CARE SERVICES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03757-01-5

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