Senate Bill S8210

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires documents utilized by state agencies, public authorities and municipalities to replace the term "emotionally disturbed person"

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-S8210 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Add §170-j, Exec L

2025-S8210 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires documents utilized by state agencies, public authorities and municipalities to replace the term "emotionally disturbed person" with the term "person experiencing an emotional crisis".

2025-S8210 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S8210 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8210
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 21, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BROUK  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
   ment Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring    documents
   utilized  by state  agencies,  public authorities  and  municipalities
   to replace the term  "emotionally  disturbed  person"  with  the  term
   "person experiencing an emotional crisis"
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  170-j
 to read as follows:
   §  170-J.  MENTAL  HEALTH  REFERENCES CONTAINED IN STATE AND MUNICIPAL
 FORMS. NO  FORM,  PREPRINTED  DOCUMENT,  OTHER  PUBLIC-FACING  DOCUMENT,
 TRAINING  MATERIAL, AGENCY GUIDANCE, OR MANUAL UTILIZED BY A STATE AGEN-
 CY, PUBLIC AUTHORITY OR MUNICIPALITY SHALL  USE  THE  TERM  "EMOTIONALLY
 DISTURBED  PERSON" TO IDENTIFY OR DENOTE A PERSON EXPERIENCING EMOTIONAL
 DISTRESS  OR  AN  EMOTIONAL  OR  MENTAL  HEALTH  CRISIS.  ALL  FORMS  OR
 PREPRINTED DOCUMENTS, OTHER PUBLIC-FACING DOCUMENTS, TRAINING MATERIALS,
 AGENCY GUIDANCE OR MANUALS UTILIZING SUCH TERM SHALL BE AMENDED NO LATER
 THAN  JANUARY  FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND  TWENTY-SIX  TO  REPLACE  THE  TERM
 "EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED PERSON" WITH THE  TERM  "PERSON  EXPERIENCING  AN
 EMOTIONAL CRISIS".
   §  2.    This  act  shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth 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.
                                                            LBD07089-03-5

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