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NY S03928

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/30/2025

Primary Sponsor

Zellnor Myrie

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Origin

Senate

2025-2026 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Allows courts to refer individuals charged with crimes to mental health treatment as a non-monetary bail condition, including using mobile crisis response providers for screening in courthouses

  • Authorizes courts to permit individuals with mental illness likely to cause serious harm to voluntarily present themselves to a psychiatric hospital or comprehensive psychiatric emergency program, or issue a civil order directing their removal to such facilities

  • Requires hospitals to provide discharge and aftercare planning, including supportive housing referrals, beginning at admission and continuing until discharge

  • Prohibits revoking release conditions solely based on noncompliance with treatment, discharge plans, or aftercare plans

  • Mandates that all clinical records produced during mental health assessment or treatment remain confidential, excluded from public record, and expunged upon case resolution

Legislative Description

Relates to releasing individuals charged with a crime under non-monetary bail conditions in order to receive mental health screening or be admitted to a hospital as a result of a mental illness which is likely to result in harm to such individual or others.

Last Action

REFERRED TO CODES

1/7/2026

Committee Referrals

Codes1/30/2025

Full Bill Text

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