Senate Bill S8637

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   8637
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 7, 2026
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 Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
 
 AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to the New York state
   drug treatment and public education fund
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 99-jj of the state  finance
 law,  as added by chapter 92 of the laws of 2021, are amended to read as
 follows:
   3. The moneys in such fund shall be expended to  the  commissioner  of
 the  office of addiction services and supports and disbursed, in consul-
 tation with the commissioner of the department of health, the office  of
 mental health, the office of cannabis management and the commissioner of
 education for the following purposes:
   (a) Reasonable costs incurred, subject to available appropriations, by
 the  office  of  addiction services and supports, to administer funds in
 accordance with the allowable uses in paragraphs (b), (c), (d)  and  (e)
 of this subdivision.
   (b)  To  develop and implement a youth-focused public health education
 and prevention campaign, including school-based prevention, early inter-
 vention, and health care services and programs to  reduce  the  risk  of
 [cannabis and other] substance use by school-aged children;
   (c)  To  develop  and  implement  a  statewide  public health campaign
 focused on the health effects of cannabis and legal  use,  including  an
 ongoing  education  and  prevention  campaign  that educates the general
 public, including parents, consumers and retailers, on the legal use  of
 cannabis,  the  importance of preventing youth access, the importance of
 safe storage and preventing secondhand cannabis smoke exposure, informa-
 tion for pregnant or breastfeeding women,  and  the  overconsumption  of
 edible cannabis products;
   (d)   To   provide   substance   use  disorder  PREVENTION,  treatment
 [programs], AND RECOVERY SERVICES for youth and adults, with an emphasis
 on programs that are culturally and gender  competent,  trauma-informed,
 [evidence-based   and   provide  a  continuum  of  care  that  includes]
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 EVIDENCE-INFORMED, AND PROVIDE CARE INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED  TO,  ONE
 OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: screening and assessment (substance use disor-
 der  as  well  as  mental health), early intervention, active treatment,
 family  involvement,  case management, DRUG USER HEALTH SERVICES SUCH AS
 overdose prevention[,] AND prevention of communicable  diseases  related
 to  substance  use,  [relapse] REOCCURRENCE management for substance use
 and other co-occurring behavioral health disorders, vocational services,
 literacy services, parenting  classes,  family  therapy  and  counseling
 services,  medication-assisted treatments, psychiatric medication [and],
 psychotherapy, AND RECOVERY SERVICES; and
   (e) To evaluate the programs being funded to  determine  their  effec-
 tiveness.
   4.  On  or  before the first day of [February] DECEMBER each year, the
 commissioner of the office of  addiction  services  and  supports  shall
 provide  a  written  report  to  the  temporary president of the senate,
 speaker of the assembly, chair of the senate finance committee, chair of
 the assembly ways and means committee, chair of the senate committee  on
 alcoholism and [drug abuse] SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS, chair of the assem-
 bly  alcoholism  and drug abuse committee, the state comptroller and the
 public. Such report shall ALSO BE PRESENTED AS A CONSOLIDATED  DASHBOARD
 AND BE MADE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE ON THE WEBSITE OF THE OFFICE OF ADDICTION
 SERVICES  AND  SUPPORTS.  SUCH REPORT SHALL detail how the moneys of the
 fund were  utilized  during  the  preceding  calendar  year,  and  shall
 include:
   (a)  the  amount  of money [dispersed] DISBURSED from the fund and the
 award process used for such disbursements, INCLUDING  THE  STATE  AGENCY
 THAT DISBURSED THE AWARD;
   (b) recipients of awards from the fund;
   (c) the amount awarded to each recipient of an award from the fund;
   (d) THE START AND END DATE OF EACH AWARD PERIOD FROM THE FUND;
   (E) the purposes for which such awards were granted; [and
   (e)]  (F) a summary financial plan for such monies which shall include
 estimates of all receipts and all  disbursements  for  the  current  and
 succeeding  fiscal  years,  along with the actual results from the prior
 fiscal year; AND
   (G) THE AMOUNT OF MONEY REMAINING IN THE FUND.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.