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NY A07525
Bill
Status
5/13/2021
Primary Sponsor
Mathylde Frontus
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AI Summary
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Establishes regional child psychiatry access projects across New York State to provide primary care providers with timely telephone consultations from child psychiatrists and support staff to help address mental health needs of children, adolescents, and families.
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Regional teams provide patient-specific behavioral health consultations, assistance accessing local behavioral health services, transitional support until routine services are available, and referrals for acute psychiatric consultations.
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Allows individual taxpayers to make voluntary contributions to a child psychiatry access fund on their state personal income tax returns beginning in tax year 2022, which do not reduce their state tax liability.
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Creates the child psychiatry access fund in the joint custody of the state comptroller and commissioner of taxation and finance, funded by voluntary tax contributions, state appropriations, grants, and gifts.
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Fund moneys are made available exclusively to the Office of Mental Health for establishing and operating child psychiatry access projects under this law.
Legislative Description
Establishes the child psychiatry access project; provides that the office of mental hygiene shall establish regional child psychiatry access projects across the state to provide primary care providers with timely access to child psychiatry consultations in order to assist such primary care providers in meeting the mental health needs of the children and adolescents and their families; establishes a gift for the child psychiatry access project on state personal income tax forms, the proceeds from which shall be deposited into a child psychiatry access fund for the funding of such projects.
Last Action
referred to mental health
1/5/2022