New York Assembly Bill A06681 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6681 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY March 7, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. TANNOUSIS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to requiring certain facilities to have a staff member specifically trained in filing assisted outpatient treatment petitions The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 9.60 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision (t) to read as follows: 3 (t) (1) The commissioner, in consultation with the commissioner of 4 health and the commissioner of corrections and community supervision, 5 shall require hospitals licensed or operated by the office of mental 6 health operating a program pursuant to subdivision (b) of this section, 7 hospitals subject to the provisions of article twenty-eight of the 8 public health law and correctional facilities as defined in section two 9 of the correction law to have a staff member specifically trained in 10 filing assisted outpatient treatment petitions. 11 (2) When an individual being released from a mental health hospital 12 under section 7.17 of this chapter, a hospital subject to the provisions 13 of article twenty-eight of the public health law, or a correctional 14 facility as defined in section two of the correction law, if such indi- 15 vidual is found to have a history of mental illness, or the individual 16 is determined during a court ordered mandatory evaluation to suffer from 17 mental illness, such individual shall not be released until they have 18 been counseled on and registered with services which shall be available 19 to such individual once they are released. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 21 have become a law; provided, however the amendments made to section 9.60 22 of the mental hygiene law made by section one of this act shall not 23 affect the repeal of such section and shall be deemed repealed there- 24 with. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09711-01-5