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Assembly Bill A5103A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Permits facilities to be dually licensed under the office of mental health and the office of addiction services and supports

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2025-A5103 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Mental Health
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§7.09 & 19.09, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A9042

2025-A5103 - Summary

Permits facilities to be dually licensed under the office of mental health and the office of addiction services and supports.

2025-A5103 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5103
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 12, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Mental Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to permitting clini-
   cians  to be dually licensed under the office of mental health and the
   office of addiction services and supports

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 7.09 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding
 a new subdivision (n) to read as follows:
   (N)  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF
 THE OFFICE OF ADDICTION  SERVICES  AND  SUPPORTS,  DEVELOP  A  LICENSING
 PROGRAM WHEREIN CLINICIANS CAN BE DUALLY LICENSED BY BOTH THE OFFICE AND
 THE OFFICE OF ADDICTION SERVICES AND SUPPORTS.
   §  2.  Section  19.09 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision (m) to read as follows:
   (M) THE COMMISSIONER SHALL, IN CONJUNCTION WITH  THE  COMMISSIONER  OF
 THE  OFFICE OF MENTAL HEALTH, DEVELOP A LICENSING PROGRAM WHEREIN CLINI-
 CIANS CAN BE DUALLY LICENSED BY BOTH THE OFFICE AND THE OFFICE OF MENTAL
 HEALTH.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation 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.
                                                            LBD08786-01-5

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2025-A5103A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Mental Health
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§7.09 & 19.09, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A9042

2025-A5103A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits facilities to be dually licensed under the office of mental health and the office of addiction services and supports.

2025-A5103A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  5103--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 12, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN, McDONOUGH, DeSTEFANO -- Multi-Sponsored
   by -- M. of A. PALMESANO -- read once and referred to the Committee on
   Mental Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
   as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to permitting facil-
   ities  to be dually licensed under the office of mental health and the
   office of addiction services and supports
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 7.09 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding
 a new subdivision (n) to read as follows:
   (N)  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF
 THE OFFICE OF ADDICTION  SERVICES  AND  SUPPORTS,  DEVELOP  A  LICENSING
 PROGRAM WHEREIN FACILITIES CAN BE DUALLY LICENSED BY BOTH THE OFFICE AND
 THE OFFICE OF ADDICTION SERVICES AND SUPPORTS.
   §  2.  Section  19.09 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision (m) to read as follows:
   (M) THE COMMISSIONER SHALL, IN CONJUNCTION WITH  THE  COMMISSIONER  OF
 THE OFFICE OF MENTAL HEALTH, DEVELOP A LICENSING PROGRAM WHEREIN FACILI-
 TIES  CAN BE DUALLY LICENSED BY BOTH THE OFFICE AND THE OFFICE OF MENTAL
 HEALTH.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation 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.
                                                            LBD08786-02-5

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