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Assembly Bill A5554

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring certain fees be deposited into the mental illness anti-stigma fund

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2025-A5554 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6849
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §31.04, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A9400, S8577
2023-2024: A5065, S3115

2025-A5554 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to requiring application fees for the issuance of operating certificates be deposited into the mental illness anti-stigma fund.

2025-A5554 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5554
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. SIMON, SANTABARBARA, BRABENEC -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Mental Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to requiring certain
   fees be deposited into the mental illness anti-stigma fund
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  8  of  subdivision (a) of section 31.04 of the
 mental hygiene law, as added by section 1 of part Z of chapter 57 of the
 laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   8. establishing a schedule of  fees  for  the  purpose  of  processing
 applications for the issuance of operating certificates. All fees pursu-
 ant to this section shall be payable to the [office for deposit into the
 general] MENTAL ILLNESS ANTI-STIGMA fund ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION
 NINETY-FIVE-H OF THE STATE FINANCE LAW.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08458-01-5

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