Mental Health

Establishes a certified community behavioral health clinic public awareness campaign to educate the public regarding certified community behavioral health clinics.

Provides that members of the surrogate decision-making committee for medical care and treatment shall be appointed by the justice center for the protection of people with special needs; reassigns certain functions of the commission on quality of care for the mentally disabled to the justice center.

Authorizes the commissioner of the office of mental health, and the office of addiction services and support to jointly establish a single set of licensing standards and requirements for the construction, operation, reporting and surveillance of comprehensive outpatient services centers.

Directs the commissioner of mental health to establish a public awareness campaign concerning the dangers of social media and cell phone use by school-age children, including but not limited to the addictive qualities of social media, the stunting impact of social media usage on the development of social skills, increased feelings of isolation, anxiety and depression among adolescent users and the attendant amplification of peer on peer bullying, and increased rates of adolescent suicide and suicide attempts, as well as about how to recognize suicide risk factors and seek suicide prevention assistance.

Establishes the rural suicide prevention council to identify barriers to mental health and substance use treatment and prevention services and other policies, practices, resources, services, and potential legislation that aim to reduce death by suicide and suicide attempts and acknowledge the demographic and cultural differences in rural communities; makes related provisions.

Directs the commissioner to promulgate regulations for the release of certain patient records by the office of mental health.

Establishes a twenty-four hour, toll-free hotline and website for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning plus (LGBTQ+) individuals who are experiencing emotional distress, suicidal ideation, or crisis-related challenges, which shall provide immediate support, referrals, resource lists, and other information.

Provides for the certification of entities seeking to provide in-home based substance use disorder treatment services.

Includes avoidant/restrictive food intake disorders as eating disorders for the purposes of mental health.

Enacts "Jesse's law" to provide that a person subject to involuntary emergency admission for immediate observation, care, and treatment of mental illness shall have the right to select the hospital they are admitted to.

Establishes a centralized mental health data reporting and integration platform to be utilized by all state-operated and county-administered mental health programs, as well as all providers licensed or funded by the state for the provision of mental health services.

Requires the establishment of community housing waiting lists within the office of mental health service system; directs each provider of housing services in the office of mental health system to provide, on a monthly basis, the office of mental health with a list of each person referred to, admitted to, applying for, withdrawing an application for and denied admission to housing provided by such provider; requires the community-based agency performing assessments of persons with a documented mental illness to provide the office with the names of such who have been assessed and who meet the eligibility criteria for the array of funded and/or licensed housing programs; requires such office to publish such waiting lists on a monthly basis.

Directs the commissioner to promulgate regulations for the release of patient records by the office of mental health.

Directs the commissioner of the office of mental health to promulgate rules and regulations prohibiting any suicide prevention or mental health services hotline operated or sponsored by the state from being automated.

Authorizes holders of certain operating certificates for treatment of persons with developmental disabilities to employ or contract with applied behavior analysts and mental health counselors.

Provides for the annual reimbursement to licensed not-for-profit corporations which provide direct care to consumers approved for service by the office for people with developmental disabilities for the cost of employer contributions to a retirement benefit fund governed by the provisions of the Federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.

Authorizes former outpatients of mental health facilities to request a court of competent jurisdiction to render an order to have their files sealed when more than ten years have elapsed since the last treatment in such facility, they are not currently being treated for mental illness and it would be in the best interests of the petitioner and society to seal such record without the requirement of a special proceeding.

Establishes a co-occurring disorders patient bill of rights to be implemented by various agencies.

Adds Down syndrome to the definition of developmental disability for the purpose of making Down syndrome an automatic qualifier for Medicaid.

Requires mental health facilities to have a staff member specifically trained in filing assisted outpatient treatment petitions and to have patients with mental illness not released from such facilities until they have been registered for available services.

Establishes a Black youth suicide prevention task force to study the current mental health practices and suicide prevention of Black youth age 5 through 18 years and make recommendations therefor; provides for the number of members, manner of appointment and the topics to be reviewed.

Requires the establishment of community housing waiting lists within the office of mental health service system; directs each provider of housing services in the office of mental health system to provide, on a monthly basis, the office of mental health with a list of each person referred to, admitted to, applying for, withdrawing an application for and denied admission to housing provided by such provider; requires the community-based agency performing assessments of persons with a documented mental illness to provide the office with the names of such who have been assessed and who meet the eligibility criteria for the array of funded and/or licensed housing programs; requires such office to publish such waiting lists on a monthly basis.

Requires the office of mental health, office of addiction services and supports and the department of education to create a behavioral health website which shall provide information on various behavioral health issues such as depression, eating disorders, anxiety, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar disorder.

Relates to reports of substantial risk or threat of harm by mental health professionals.

Relates to the development of a public anti-stigma mental health education program targeting the general public and underserved populations.

Establishes a credentialing pilot program for direct support professionals to assist and enhance the field of direct care support.

Authorizes the commissioner of mental health to establish up to three, three-year pilot programs in community behavioral health organizations for the purposes of creating social worker pilot programs to support the ongoing retention and recruitment of licensed clinical social workers.

Directs the office of mental health to conduct a study on the effects of abuse suffered while incarcerated on formerly incarcerated individuals.

Directs the commissioner of the office of mental health to create and operate a law enforcement, first responder, active and non-active-duty service members and veteran informational mobile application.

Permits facilities to be dually licensed under the office of mental health and the office of addiction services and supports.

Relates to the establishment of mental health clubhouses pursuant to a statewide implementation plan developed by the office of mental health.

Allows for certain rules and regulations to be waived in order to promulgate collaboration between mental health providers to develop programs for the benefit of the mentally ill.

Directs the commissioner of the office of mental health and the director of the state office for the aging shall establish a mental home health services program for the aging to facilitate access to mental home health services to respond to identified mental health needs, including those needs that may have resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic, and for the aging or families that may not have access to mental health professionals in-person; makes related provisions.

Establishes minimum compensation standards for the reimbursement of home health agencies and persons employed thereof; directs the commissioner of health, in consultation with the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities to develop methodologies to determine such minimum compensation standard.

Requires the office of mental health to conduct a study on utilizing the therapeutic techniques studied by the research and recognition project for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Adds gaming disorder to the types of disorders classified in the mental hygiene law.

Provides that members of a mobile crisis team shall include any combination of behavioral health professionals, certified peer specialists, certified recovery peer advocates, credentialed family peer advocates, and credentialed youth peer advocates.

Provides for the certification of entities seeking to provide in-home based substance use disorder treatment services.

Establishes a support team assisted response pilot program in any city with a population of one million or more for the purpose of providing emergency response services for mental health, substance use and other non-criminal public health emergencies.

Provides an authorized police officer or peace officer the ability to request ambulance service for certain individuals who need emergency admission for immediate observation, care and treatment.

Requires suicide prevention hotline centers to meet certain requirements for individuals who are in the perinatal period.

Directs the commissioner of the office of mental health to promulgate rules and regulations prohibiting any suicide prevention or mental health services hotline operated or sponsored by the state from being automated.

Provides for mental health screening; creates a presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is proximately caused by employment for law enforcement officers and emergency medical services personnel.

Establishes a moratorium on the placement of registered sex offenders by the office for people with developmental disabilities in residential placements for individuals with developmental disabilities; requires the office to study the dangers and effects of such placements and whether there are any other alternatives to such placements and to report to the governor and the legislature on its findings and recommendations.

Requires the office of mental health to convene statewide forums and listening sessions in areas with high rates of death by suicide, suicide attempts, or other risk factors associated with suicide, and high risk minority groups or special populations.

Imposes a duty to protect upon mental health practitioners; requires reasonable efforts to modify aspects of treatment in order to reduce or eliminate the risk of harm, initiating procedures for hospitalization, notifying the intended victim or victims, or notifying law enforcement officials when a person directly communicates a threat of serious, imminent harm to self or against a readily identifiable person or persons, and the threat includes both a serious intent to act and the ability to carry out the threat; does not require a mental health practitioner to take any action which, in the exercise of reasonable professional judgment, would endanger such mental health practitioner or increase the danger to a potential victim or victims.

Establishes the office of the independent intellectual and developmental disability ombudsperson program for the purpose of assisting individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities to ensure that they receive coverage from managed care organizations that is appropriate in meeting their individual service needs; uses a request for proposal process to determine who shall be responsible for such program.

Directs the commissioner of mental health to conduct a study of child- and youth-targeted mobile crisis outreach teams in New York state, and deliver a report including the findings and recommendations of such study to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, and the speaker of the assembly.

Establishes the rural suicide prevention council to identify barriers to mental health and substance use treatment and prevention services and other policies, practices, resources, services, and potential legislation that aim to reduce death by suicide and suicide attempts and acknowledge the demographic and cultural differences in rural communities; makes related provisions.

Provides for definitions of mental health and family and youth peer advocates and requires the office of mental health to establish peer service qualification programs.

Provides that members of a mobile crisis team shall include any combination of behavioral health professionals, certified peer specialists, certified recovery peer advocates, credentialed family peer advocates, and credentialed youth peer advocates.

Provides for the certification of entities seeking to provide in-home based substance use disorder treatment services.

Establishes a developmental disability, mental health, and behavioral condition community stakeholder committee to examine effective evidence-based developmental, mental, and behavioral health screening methods for children in kindergarten through fifth grade.

Establishes a curriculum and task force to provide housing navigation services for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Establishes a Latina suicide prevention task force; provides for the number of members, manner of appointment and the topics to be reviewed.

Expands the legislative reporting requirements for the office of mental health and the office for people with developmental disabilities to include the chair of the assembly committee on people with disabilities and the chair of the senate committee on disabilities.

Establishes a co-occurring disorders patient bill of rights to be implemented by various agencies.

Establishes a statewide person-centered mental health services work group to improve statewide mental health planning and outcomes to achieve a person-centered, prevention-first integrated and tiered system of care for holistic health and wellness.

Allows direct descendants of a patient who has been deceased for a period of fifty years or longer to access such patient's clinical records.

Expands the legislative reporting requirements for the office of mental health and the office for people with developmental disabilities to include the chair of the assembly committee on people with disabilities and the chair of the senate committee on disabilities.

Relates to reimbursement for residential habilitation services.

Establishes a Latina suicide prevention task force; provides for the number of members, manner of appointment and the topics to be reviewed.

Requires parity in the mental and physical health treatment of the residents of New York state; provides that both mental and physical health "will be matters of public concern and provision therefor shall be made by the state and by such of its subdivisions".

Establishes an LGBTQ+ youth and young adult suicide prevention task force; provides for the number of members, manner of appointment and the topics to be reviewed.

Establishes an LGBTQ+ youth and young adult suicide prevention task force; provides for the number of members, manner of appointment and the topics to be reviewed.

Provides mental telehealth services to children, adolescents, and young adults.

Relates to the geriatric demonstration program to promote mental health and home care collaboration; authorizes the commissioner of mental health to waive rules and regulations to address barriers to participation in the program.

Requires the office of mental health to conduct a study on utilizing the therapeutic techniques studied by the research and recognition project for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Permits clinicians to be dually licensed under the office of mental health and the office of addiction services and supports.

Creates 10 interagency placement committees throughout the state to recommend treatment and rehabilitation programs or strategies for youths with co-existing mental disabilities; directs such committees to establish a process by which youths can be referred to such committees; directs such committees to submit a report annually to the governor and legislature identifying gaps in treatment and rehabilitation options, and any plans or recommendations to increase such options.

Establishes a support team assisted response pilot program in any city with a population of one million or more for the purpose of providing emergency response services for mental health, substance use and other non-criminal public health emergencies.

Relates to providing licensed facilities, provider agencies, and other providers of services a summary of final substantiated reports of category two conduct of an employee or volunteer.

Requires the establishment of community housing waiting lists within the office of mental health service system; directs each provider of housing services in the office of mental health system to provide, on a monthly basis, the office of mental health with a list of each person referred to, admitted to, applying for, withdrawing an application for and denied admission to housing provided by such provider; requires the community-based agency performing assessments of persons with a documented mental illness to provide the office with the names of such who have been assessed and who meet the eligibility criteria for the array of funded and/or licensed housing programs; requires such office to publish such waiting lists on a monthly basis.

Authorizes a community member or community ambassador to apply for involuntary admission of a person alleged to be mentally ill.

Directs the commissioner to promulgate regulations for the release of certain patient records by the office of mental health.

Enacts "Jesse's law" to provide that a person subject to involuntary emergency admission for immediate observation, care, and treatment of mental illness shall have the right to select the hospital they are admitted to.

Relates to special prosecutors and sworn investigators employed by the justice center for the protection of people with special needs.

Provides for mental health screening; creates a presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is proximately caused by employment for law enforcement officers and emergency medical services personnel.

Authorizes former outpatients of mental health facilities to request a court of competent jurisdiction to render an order to have their files sealed when more than ten years have elapsed since the last treatment in such facility, they are not currently being treated for mental illness and it would be in the best interests of the petitioner and society to seal such record without the requirement of a special proceeding.

Enhances the assisted outpatient treatment program; eliminates the expiration and repeal of Kendra's Law.

Establishes a workgroup to conduct analysis on the ambulatory patient group rates and commercial insurance rates for behavioral health services.

Relates to the reimbursement of local services provided to persons with a disability; provides for retroactive reimbursement if local services were furnished prior to approval.

Establishes a curriculum and task force to provide housing navigation services for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Enacts the health care worker peer support program.

Relates to reports of substantial risk or threat of harm by mental health professionals.

Directs the commissioner of mental health to establish a maternal mental health workgroup to study and issue recommendations related to maternal mental health and perinatal and postpartum mood and anxiety disorders; identifies underrepresented and vulnerable populations and risk factors in the state for maternal mental health disorders that may occur during pregnancy and through the first postpartum year.

Adds gaming disorder to the types of disorders classified in the mental hygiene law.

Requires the New York State Office of Mental Health to study the effects that awareness of or exposure to police shootings or killings of unarmed African Americans has on the mental health of African Americans in New York state and to deliver a finding of the results of such study to the governor and the legislative leaders.

Relates to establishing integrated community mental health clinics to provide services to address mental health issues, anger management issues, substance abuse issues and isolation issues.

Establishes peer crisis diversion homes; requires the commissioner to establish or contract for no less than six peer crisis diversion homes within one year.

Relates to establishing a crisis intervention demonstration program.

Safeguards cash accounts for people with developmental disabilities in a facility under the control of the commissioner of mental health, the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities and the commissioner of alcoholism and substance abuse services.

Allows for certain rules and regulations to be waived in order to promulgate collaboration between mental health providers to develop programs for the benefit of the mentally ill.

Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities, department of health and division of the budget to authorize voluntary providers of supports and services to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to bill and be reimbursed within thirty days of billing for novel coronavirus, COVID-19 related costs and expenses, including, but not limited to, increased staffing and personal costs, personal protective equipment expenses, and increased residential cost.

Establishes a moratorium on the placement of registered sex offenders by the office for people with developmental disabilities in residential placements for individuals with developmental disabilities; requires the office to study the dangers and effects of such placements and whether there are any other alternatives to such placements and to report to the governor and the legislature on its findings and recommendations.

Relates to establishing a crisis intervention demonstration program.

Requires the office of mental health to establish a training program for the diagnosis and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder for military veterans; the program shall include a component on military culture competency and shall be intended for the training of mental health providers and mental health clinicians; certification of the completion of the program may be provided to participants through the office.

Establishes a Latina suicide prevention task force; provides for the number of members, manner of appointment and the topics to be reviewed.

Requires video cameras to be placed on the entrances/exits of all facilities run by the office for people with developmental disabilities.

Relates to authorizing certain public officials and members of the clergy to visit sex offender civil confinement facilities.

Establishes a Latina suicide prevention task force; provides for the number of members, manner of appointment and the topics to be reviewed.

Establishes a temporary commission to study aging in place in mental health housing; provides for the repeal of such commission upon expiration thereof.

Requires the commissioner of mental health to issue a report on short term crisis respite programs and intensive crisis respite programs.

Directs the commissioner of mental health to publish information on the office of mental health website about the mental illness anti-stigma distinctive license plates.

Relates to supported decision-making by people with intellectual, developmental, cognitive and psychosocial disabilities.

Relates to the residency requirement for designated beneficiaries of the ABLE program and the definition of designated beneficiary.

Directs the commissioner of mental health to establish a maternal mental health workgroup to study and issue recommendations related to maternal mental health and perinatal and postpartum mood and anxiety disorders; identifies underrepresented and vulnerable populations and risk factors in the state for maternal mental health disorders that may occur during pregnancy and through the first postpartum year.

Relates to the composition of the state council on developmental disabilities.

Relates to supported decision-making by people with intellectual, developmental, cognitive and psychosocial disabilities.

Requires the office of mental health and the department of health to conduct a study on the disparate impacts regarding postpartum depression screening tests and to prepare and submit a report of findings and recommendations to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, and the senate and assembly minority leaders.

Establishes peer crisis diversion homes; requires the commissioner to establish or contract for no less than six peer crisis diversion homes within one year.

Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities, department of health and division of the budget to authorize voluntary providers of supports and services to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to bill and be reimbursed within thirty days of billing for novel coronavirus, COVID-19 related costs and expenses, including, but not limited to, increased staffing and personal costs, personal protective equipment expenses, and increased residential cost.

Provides addiction and mental health services training, including crisis intervention team training, mental health first aid, implicit bias training and naloxone training, to firefighters and emergency medical services personnel.

Allows for certain rules and regulations to be waived in order to promulgate collaboration between mental health providers to develop programs for the benefit of the mentally ill.

Requires the office of mental health to conduct a study on utilizing the therapeutic techniques studied by the research and recognition project for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Establishes a regional or county-based peer support services program for transgender and non-binary individuals that provides support services including but not limited to, peer counseling for mental illness including alcohol and substance abuse counseling, family support services, domestic violence, mental health and physical health.

Relates to involuntary in-patient mental health treatment where care and treatment in a hospital is essential to a person's welfare if, in the absence of such care and treatment, the person's mental illness is likely to result in serious harm.

Establishes a curriculum and task force to provide housing navigation services for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Allows for certain rules and regulations to be waived in order to promulgate collaboration between mental health providers to develop programs for the benefit of the mentally ill.

Establishes an LGBT youth and young adult suicide prevention task force; provides for the number of members, manner of appointment and the topics to be reviewed.

Establishes an LGBT youth and young adult suicide prevention task force; provides for the number of members, manner of appointment and the topics to be reviewed.

Directs the commissioner to promulgate regulations for the release of patient records by the office of mental health.

Directs the commissioner to promulgate regulations for the release of patient records by the office of mental health.

Requires the establishment of community housing waiting lists within the office of mental health service system; directs each provider of housing services in the office of mental health system to provide, on a monthly basis, the office of mental health with a list of each person referred to, admitted to, applying for, withdrawing an application for and denied admission to housing provided by such provider; requires the community-based agency performing assessments of persons with a documented mental illness to provide the office with the names of such who have been assessed and who meet the eligibility criteria for the array of funded and/or licensed housing programs; requires such office to publish such waiting lists on a monthly basis.

Directs the commissioner of the office of mental health, in consultation with the commissioner and the office of addiction services and supports to submit a report that details the resources necessary to make the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, otherwise known as the 9-8-8 suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system, available, operational, and effective across the state.

Relates to autism detection, education and mapping including a discussion on the screening and detection of autism, how to promote education of the public regarding autism, to promote counseling and referral services, and to discuss previously mapped locations of the occurrence of autism.

Provides mental telehealth services to children, adolescents, and young adults.

Establishes a curriculum and task force to provide housing navigation services for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Establishes a support team assisted response pilot program in any city with a population of one million or more for the purpose of providing emergency response services for mental health, substance use and other non-criminal public health emergencies.

Establishes a Black youth suicide prevention task force; provides for the number of members, manner of appointment and the topics to be reviewed.

Directs the commissioner of the office of mental health, in consultation with the commissioner and the office of addiction services and supports to submit a report that details the resources necessary to make the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, otherwise known as the 9-8-8 suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system, available, operational, and effective across the state.

Authorizes the commissioners of the department of health, the office of mental health, and the office of addiction services and support to jointly establish a single set of licensing standards and requirements for the construction, operation, reporting and surveillance of comprehensive outpatient services centers.

Creates the twelve member rural suicide prevention council to examine the causes of rural suicides or attempts and to make recommendations for rural suicide reduction.

Relates to special prosecutors and sworn investigators employed by the justice center for the protection of people with special needs.

Requires certain entities to check the justice center's register of substantiated category one cases of abuse or neglect; prohibits certain providers of services from hiring employees who are on the register of substantiated category one cases of abuse or neglect.

Provides that when there is an involuntary admittance to an in-patient facility, the person's or the person's guardian's choice of facility shall be respected as long as it is appropriate; provided, however, such choice shall be subject to the facility's ability to provide the person's necessary level of care and the availability of space.

Enacts the "minority mental health act" to establish the division of minority mental health within the office of mental health; provides that such division shall be responsible for assuring that mental health programs and services are culturally and linguistically appropriate to meet the needs of racial and ethnic minorities.

Provides for mental health screening; creates a presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is proximately caused by employment for law enforcement officers and emergency medical services personnel.

Provides an authorized police officer or peace officer the ability to request ambulance service for certain individuals who need emergency admission for immediate observation, care and treatment.

Creates an environment in the workplace that does not discourage witnessing and reporting on abusive behavior; provides penalties for acts of retribution against such person.

Relates to establishing the New York state council on mental health emergency and crisis response.

Provides that a sponsoring agency must make a presentation at a public hearing before a residential facility for the disabled may be placed in a municipality.

Requires the office of mental health, office of alcoholism and substance abuse services and the department of education to create a behavioral health website which shall provide information on various behavioral health issues such as depression, eating disorders, anxiety, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar disorder.

Relates to establishing state and regional councils and regional response units for mental health emergencies; relates to certain powers of peace officers and police officers handling mental health emergencies.

Requires the establishment of community housing waiting lists within the office of mental health service system; directs each provider of housing services in the office of mental health system to provide, on a monthly basis, the office of mental health with a list of each person referred to, admitted to, applying for, withdrawing an application for and denied admission to housing provided by such provider; requires the community-based agency performing assessments of persons with a documented mental illness to provide the office with the names of such who have been assessed and who meet the eligibility criteria for the array of funded and/or licensed housing programs; requires such office to publish such waiting lists on a monthly basis.

Relates to the geriatric demonstration program to promote mental health and home care collaboration; authorizes the commissioner of mental health to identify barriers to participation in the program and make recommendations to address such barriers.

Directs the commissioner to promulgate regulations for the release of certain patient records by the office of mental health.

Ensures the rights of an individual with a disability or a vulnerable adult during investigations conducted by the justice center.

Relates to reports of substantial risk or threat of harm by mental health professionals.

Relates to authorizing certain legislators and clergymen or ministers to visit sex offender civil confinement facilities.

Authorizes certain reports relating to reportable incidents involving vulnerable persons to be released to officers and employees of the state comptroller for the purposes of a duly authorized performance audit.

Authorizes and directs the commissioner of mental health to conduct a study on the suicide rates of taxi medallion holders and taxi drivers in the state and make a report and recommendations on the findings of such study within one year.

Provides for the annual reimbursement to licensed not-for-profit corporations which provide direct care to consumers approved for service by the office for people with developmental disabilities for the cost of employer contributions to a retirement benefit fund governed by the provisions of the Federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.

Authorizes former outpatients of mental health facilities to request a court of competent jurisdiction to render an order to have their files sealed when more than ten years have elapsed since the last treatment in such facility, they are not currently being treated for mental illness and it would be in the best interests of the petitioner and society to seal such record without the requirement of a special proceeding.

Relates to establishing a credentialing pilot program for direct support professionals to assist and enhance the field of direct care support.

Requires video cameras to be placed on the entrances/exits of all facilities run by the office for people with developmental disabilities.

Relates to the provision of records upon the receipt of a complaint of an incident of abuse or neglect of an individual with a disability.

Relates to providing information about extreme risk protection orders upon conditional release or discharge of patients to the community; allows information to be provided to the patient or, upon consent of the patient, to an authorized representative who has actively participated in the patient's treatment plan, if the director of the facility and such facility's clinical staff who worked directly with the patient determine through an evaluation and assessment, that there is the presence of a mental health diagnosis or symptoms of a mental illness exhibited by the patient, which indicates the patient may be at substantial risk of physical harm to himself or herself, or has made threats of or attempts at suicide.

Replaces certain instances of the word "mentally ill person" with "person with a mental illness" or "person with a mental disability".

Relates to the closure of certain office of mental health, office for people with developmental disabilities or office of children and family services facilities and institutions.

Relates to providing information about extreme risk protection orders upon conditional release or discharge of patients to the community; allows information to be provided to the patient or, upon consent of the patient, to an authorized representative who has actively participated in the patient's treatment plan, if the director of the facility and such facility's clinical staff who worked directly with the patient determine through an evaluation and assessment, that there is the presence of a mental health diagnosis or symptoms of a mental illness exhibited by the patient, which indicates the patient may be at substantial risk of physical harm to himself or herself, or has made threats of or attempts at suicide.

Replaces certain instances of the word "mentally ill person" with "person with a mental illness" or "person with a mental disability".

Directs the commissioner of mental health to create a workgroup and report regarding frontline worker trauma informed care.

Provides that moneys awarded as damages or obtained by judgment or settlement as a result of a cause of action commenced against officers or employees of the office of mental health shall not be considered assets for purposes of determining whether or not there exists an inability to pay for services; provides that such moneys shall not be seized, offset or otherwise attached for the purposes of paying fees for services rendered by the department of mental hygiene.

Establishes the frontline workers trauma informed care advisory council to connect frontline workers impacted by COVID-19 to evidenced-based trauma-informed support resources and learning opportunities.

Relates to establishing residential treatment facilities as an alternative to incarceration designated by the commissioner for the care and treatment of persons with serious mental illness who are accused of at least one felony level crime.

Provides for mental health screening and creates a presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is proximately caused by employment for law enforcement officers and emergency medical services personnel.

Directs the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities to conduct a study in consultation with the comptroller's office on whether it is feasible to allow the use of debit cards for residents' cash accounts to be used for facilities and service providers holding operating certificates.

Directs the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities to conduct a study in consultation with the comptroller's office on whether it is feasible to allow the use of debit cards for residents' cash accounts to be used for facilities and service providers holding operating certificates.

Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities, department of health and division of the budget to authorize voluntary providers of supports and services to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to bill and be reimbursed within thirty days of billing for novel coronavirus, COVID-19 related costs and expenses, including, but not limited to, increased staffing and personal costs, personal protective equipment expenses, and increased residential cost.

Requires parity in the mental and physical health treatment of the residents of New York state; provides that both mental and physical health "will be matters of public concern and provision therefor shall be made by the state and by such of its subdivisions".

Requires emergency services facilities to provide immediate suicide risk assessments to acute psychiatric patients.

Relates to establishing the New York state council on mental health emergency and crisis response.

Safeguards cash accounts for people with developmental disabilities in a facility under the control of the commissioner of mental health, the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities and the commissioner of alcoholism and substance abuse services.

Relates to the geriatric demonstration program to promote mental health and home care collaboration; authorizes the commissioner of mental health to identify barriers to participation in the program and make recommendations to address such barriers.

Relates to requiring the office of mental health, office of alcoholism and substance abuse services and the department of education to create a behavioral health website which shall provide information on various behavioral health issues such as depression, eating disorders, anxiety, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar disorder.

Enacts the bill of rights for persons with developmental disabilities.

Requires certain hospitals and correctional facilities to have a staff member specifically trained in filing assisted outpatient treatment petitions.

Provides for the autism detection, education and mapping program.

Provides that a sponsoring agency shall give notice to persons owning property within 500 feet of a proposed site of a community residential facility and requires hearings to include evaluation of alternative sites; gives the municipality additional time to respond; gives municipality sixty rather than forty days after such notice to approve or object to the proposed site.

Expands the definition of adult care facilities for the purposes of protection of people with special needs.

Relates to the geriatric demonstration program to promote mental health and home care collaboration; authorizes the commissioner of mental health and the commissioner of health to waive rules and regulations to address barriers to collaboration by mental health providers and providers of home care services; provides further that regulations pertaining to patient safety may not be waived, nor shall regulations be waived if such waiver would risk patient safety.

Allows for certain rules and regulations to be waived in order to promulgate collaboration between mental health providers to develop programs for the benefit of the mentally ill.

Directs the commissioner of the office of mental health to promulgate rules and regulations prohibiting any suicide prevention or mental health services hotline operated or sponsored by the state from being automated.

Authorizes certain reports relating to reportable incidents involving vulnerable persons to be made available to officers and employees of the state comptroller for the purposes of a duly authorized performance audit.

Establishes an LGBT youth and young adult suicide prevention task force; provides for the number of members, manner of appointment and the topics to be reviewed.

Requires legislative approval for the closure of certain office of mental health, office for people with developmental disabilities or office of children and family services facilities and institutions.

Requires legislative approval for the closure of certain office of mental health, office for people with developmental disabilities or office of children and family services facilities and institutions.

Requires certain entities to check the justice center's register of substantiated category one cases of abuse or neglect and prohibits certain providers of services from hiring employees who are on the register of substantiated category one cases of abuse or neglect.

Establishes the office of the independent intellectual and developmental disability ombudsman program for the purpose of assisting individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities to ensure that they receive coverage from managed care organizations that is appropriate in meeting their individual service needs.

Relates to rental and mortgage payments of supportive housing for the mentally ill; provides for the reimbursement to agencies for costs associated with the rental or ownership of supportive housing subject to the availability of appropriations therefor and the reasonableness of such costs.

Establishes a Latina suicide prevention task force; provides for the number of members, manner of appointment and the topics to be reviewed.

Creates "Robin's law"; relates to mental health and chemical dependence outpatient treatment of sex offenders; requires the development of guidelines and procedures for outpatient group settings.

Requires the establishment of community housing waiting lists within the office of mental health service system; directs each provider of housing services in the office of mental health system to provide, on a monthly basis, the office of mental health with a list of each person referred to, admitted to, applying for, withdrawing an application for and denied admission to housing provided by such provider; requires the community-based agency performing assessments of persons with a documented mental illness to provide the office with the names of such who have been assessed and who meet the eligibility criteria for the array of funded and/or licensed housing programs; requires such office to publish such waiting lists on a monthly basis.

Imposes a duty to protect upon mental health practitioners; requires reasonable efforts to modify aspects of treatment in order to reduce or eliminate the risk of harm, initiating procedures for hospitalization, notifying the intended victim or victims, or notifying law enforcement officials when a person directly communicates a threat of serious, imminent harm to self or against a readily identifiable person or persons, and the threat includes both a serious intent to act and the ability to carry out the threat; does not require a mental health practitioner to take any action which, in the exercise of reasonable professional judgment, would endanger such mental health practitioner or increase the danger to a potential victim or victims.

Relates to reports of substantial risk or threat of harm by mental health professionals.

Authorizes former outpatients of mental health facilities to request a court of competent jurisdiction to render an order to have their files sealed when more than ten years have elapsed since the last treatment in such facility, they are not currently being treated for mental illness and it would be in the best interests of the petitioner and society to seal such record without the requirement of a special proceeding.

Requires standardized training curriculum for persons employed or volunteering at a mental health care provider facility certified or operated by the office for people with developmental disabilities.

Requires that the Office of Mental Health and the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities give consideration to the fiscal management practices of an applicant to operate a mental hygiene facility or program as part of the review of such individual's character and competence.

Requires video cameras to be placed on the entrances/exits of all facilities run by the office for people with developmental disabilities.

Enacts provisions relating to the use of electroconvulsive therapy; bans the use of such therapy on persons less than 16 years of age and restricts the use of such therapy on persons 65 years of age or older.

Repeals certain provisions relating to establishing the justice center for the protection of people with special needs.

Provides for fees for services rendered patients in state inpatient facilities pursuant to court orders to be paid by the county in which the court is located for the first thirty days.

Requires providers of residential services to developmentally disabled children to have surveillance cameras in the common areas of their residential facilities.

Relates to a cost of living adjustment for designated human services for the purpose of establishing rates of payments; extends certain provisions; excludes food and energy.

Relates to establishing an electronic monitoring program for children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder as well as other developmental disabilities.

Provides for the annual reimbursement to licensed not-for-profit corporations which provide direct care to consumers approved for service by the office for people with developmental disabilities for the cost of employer contributions to a retirement benefit fund governed by the provisions of the Federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.

Establishes a curriculum and task force to provide housing navigation services for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Enhances the assisted outpatient treatment program; eliminates the expiration and repeal of Kendra's Law.

Prevents discrimination against persons with physical or mental disabilities in regards to organ donations.

Creates a web-based acute psychiatric bed registry to collect, aggregate and display information about available acute beds in public and private psychiatric facilities.

Establishes a program of tiered eligibility for services offered by the office for people with developmental disabilities for persons with learning disabilities and other complex neurological impairments.

Creates an environment in the workplace that does not discourage witnessing and reporting on abusive behavior and provides penalties for acts of retribution against such person.

Requires providers of services for the developmentally disabled to perform certain duties relating to the use of surveillance cameras in all public common areas in residential facilities.

Authorizes certain reports relating to reportable incidents involving vulnerable persons to be released to officers and employees of the state comptroller for the purposes of a duly authorized performance audit.

Eliminates the alternative of strict and intensive supervision and treatment for sex offenders requiring civil management.

Corrects various laws to ensure that the office for people with developmental disabilities is no longer referred to as the office of mental retardation and developmental disabilities.

Corrects various laws to ensure that the office for people with developmental disabilities is no longer referred to as the office of mental retardation and developmental disabilities.

Provides a mental hygiene legal service to patients or residents of residential healthcare facilities who have been admitted directly from a facility and who have a serious mental illness and are receiving services related to such illness.

Relates to the suspension of service of state-operated individualized residential alternatives.

Establishes a Black youth suicide prevention task force; provides for the number of members, manner of appointment and the topics to be reviewed.

Establishes a Black youth suicide prevention task force; provides for the number of members, manner of appointment and the topics to be reviewed.

Creates the rural suicide prevention council; requires biennial reports on the findings of the council.

Relates to requiring a written report on plans and programs related to the prevention of suicide.

Relates to reviewing suicide prevention programs periodically and making recommendations regarding cultural and linguistic competency and best practices for screening and interventions aimed at addressing suicide risk factors for minority groups and other underrepresented populations.

Relates to reviewing suicide prevention programs periodically and making recommendations regarding cultural and linguistic competency and best practices for screening and interventions aimed at addressing suicide risk factors for minority groups and other underrepresented populations.

Establishes a temporary commission relating to the evaluation of the office of mental health housing programs.

Establishes a temporary commission relating to the evaluation of the office of mental health housing programs.

Provides the community guardian program shall obtain annually a statement prepared by a physician, psychologist, nurse clinician, social worker, or other person, evaluating the condition and current functional level of the person for whom the community guardian program serves as guardian; the appointing court should be informed of the results of the evaluation.

Relates to increasing the maximum account balance for the New York ABLE program in accordance with the NY state college choice tuition savings program.

Instructs the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities to make available on the office website, information regarding the process for individuals to obtain eligibility for services and to seek access to services.

Relates to notices to be posted in facilities licensed, certified or operated, by the office of mental health.

Requires the commissioner of mental health to issue a report on short term crisis respite programs and intensive crisis respite programs.

Creates a public education initiative designed to eliminate stigma and misinformation about mental illness and substance use among military service members.

Requires the office of mental health to develop educational materials for educators regarding suicide prevention.

Relates to impact studies on tick-borne diseases; requires the department to issue a report examining the mental health impacts of tick-borne diseases and blood-borne pathogens on mental illness rates in endemic areas of the state.

Authorizes the geriatric service demonstration program to promote mental health and home care collaboration within the program.

Establishes a Latina suicide prevention task force; provides for the number of members, manner of appointment and the topics to be reviewed.

Directs the autism spectrum disorders advisory board to improve outreach to minority group members relating to children with such disorders.

Directs the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities, the commissioner of education, the commissioner of health, the commissioner of the office of children and family services and the commissioner of mental health to study and report the costs to the state for the early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder and the long-term treatment for individuals with autism spectrum disorder.

Prohibits the head of the office for people with developmental disabilities from changing the auspice of any individualized residential alternative that is operated by the state.

Authorizes the release of certain records pertaining to deceased residents of the office for people with developmental disabilities operated or certified facilities to family members.

Relates to establishing a crisis intervention demonstration program.

Requires the office of mental health to develop educational materials on effective discharge planning of individuals with a mental health disorder who are discharged from a hospital and provide such materials to general hospitals across the state.

Provides for the emergency or involuntary admission of persons with mental illness when there is a risk of serious physical harm or serious psychiatric harm.

Provides for the emergency or involuntary admission of persons with mental illness when there is a risk of serious physical harm or serious psychiatric harm.

Requires legislative approval for the closure of certain office of mental health, office for people with developmental disabilities or office of children and family services facilities and institutions.

Requires legislative approval for the closure of certain office of mental health, office for people with developmental disabilities or office of children and family services facilities and institutions.

Requires notice be posted in programs subject to regulation by the office for people with developmental disabilities, informing employees to call 911 during an emergency and directing them to make required reports relating to abuse or neglect to the justice center for the protection of people with special needs or to law enforcement.

Requires certain entities to check the justice center's register of substantiated category one cases of abuse or neglect and prohibits certain providers of services from hiring employees who are on the register of substantiated category one cases of abuse or neglect.

Requires that mandated reporters who are multiple reporters who have direct knowledge of the same reportable incident shall be required to report such incident unless they know the report has already been made by another mandated reporter.

Requires providers of services for the developmentally disabled to perform certain duties relating to the use of surveillance cameras in all public common areas in residential facilities.

Establishes a curriculum and task force to provide housing navigation services for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Creates the rural suicide prevention council; requires biennial reports on the findings of the council.

Requires providers of residential services to developmentally disabled children to have surveillance cameras in the common areas of their residential facilities.

Creates a public education initiative designed to eliminate stigma and misinformation about mental illness and chemical dependence among military service members.

Authorizes the governor and lieutenant-governor, commissioner of general services, secretary of state, comptroller and attorney-general, members of the legislature and any employee of the inmate-patient facility as requested by the member of the legislature if the member requests to be so accompanied, provided that such request does not impact upon the department's ability to manage its facilities as determined by the commissioner, judges of the court of appeals, supreme court and county judges, district attorneys and county sheriffs to visit inmate-patient facilities of the department of mental hygiene.

Relates to notice of transfer of sex offender to community program or residence.

Creates "Robin's law"; relates to mental health and chemical dependence outpatient treatment of sex offenders; requires the development of guidelines and procedures for outpatient group settings.

Relates to notice of transfer of sex offender to community program or residence.

Relates to the establishment of the adolescent suicide prevention advisory council.

Provides that no antidepressant or anti-anxiety medication which has an increased risk of suicidal behavior in individuals shall be dispensed without consultation and other information to certain persons receiving outpatient services.

Enacts the "behavioral health and long-term care act"; provides for the establishment of a behavioral health and long-term care plan.

Enacts the "employment first choice act" to ensure that an individual with developmental disabilities in a nonintegrated setting shall have the right to remain in such a setting under certain circumstances.

Requires annual radon testing of facilities, department facilities, hospitals, schools, community residences, supervised living facilities and other facilities.

Relates to the powers and duties of the advisory council of the justice center for the protection of people with special needs; adds additional duties relating to investigations of allegations of abuse and neglect.

Relates to the reimbursement of local services provided to persons with a disability; provides for retroactive reimbursement if local services were furnished prior to approval.

Authorizes certain reports relating to reportable incidents involving vulnerable persons to be released to officers and employees of the state comptroller for the purposes of a duly authorized performance audit.

Relates to reviewing suicide prevention programs periodically and making recommendations regarding cultural and linguistic competency and best practices for screening and interventions aimed at addressing suicide risk factors for minority groups, including membership in racial and ethnic, religious, sexual and gender minority groups.

Prohibits the dissemination of certain personal information, including but not limited to, names, addresses, children and bank accounts, when such information relates to a petition for guardianship.

Enhances the assisted outpatient treatment program; eliminates the expiration and repeal of Kendra's Law.

Relates to establishing a crisis intervention demonstration program.

Directs the commissioner to promulgate regulations for the release of patient records by the office of mental health.

Prevents discrimination against persons with physical or mental disabilities in regards to organ donations.

Enhances the assisted outpatient treatment program; eliminates the expiration and repeal of Kendra's Law.

Relates to the powers and duties of the advisory council of the justice center for the protection of people with special needs; adds additional duties relating to investigations of allegations of abuse and neglect.

Provides a mental hygiene legal service to patients or residents of residential healthcare facilities who have been admitted directly from a facility and who have a chronic mental illness and are receiving services related to such illness.

Standardizes safety trainings at developmental disability facilities.

Requires the state to reimburse municipalities for loss of real property tax revenue resulting from the establishment of community residential facilities for the disabled.

Relates to the definitions of neglect and significant incident for the purposes of reportable incidents.

Requires the sponsoring agency of a proposed community residence to provide the chief executive officer of the municipality with the number of registered sex offenders who will live in such residence.

Imposes a duty to protect upon mental health practitioners; requires reasonable efforts to modify aspects of treatment in order to reduce or eliminate the risk of harm, initiating procedures for hospitalization, notifying the intended victim or victims, or notifying law enforcement officials when a person directly communicates a threat of serious, imminent harm to self or against a readily identifiable person or persons, and the threat includes both a serious intent to act and the ability to carry out the threat; does not require a mental health practitioner to take any action which, in the exercise of reasonable professional judgment, would endanger such mental health practitioner or increase the danger to a potential victim or victims.

Relates to the duty to report incidents to 911 and the county district attorney's office.

Requires the establishment of community housing waiting lists within the office of mental health service system; directs each provider of housing services in the office of mental health system to provide, on a monthly basis, the office of mental health with a list of each person referred to, admitted to, applying for, withdrawing an application for and denied admission to housing provided by such provider; requires the community-based agency performing assessments of persons with a documented mental illness to provide the office with the names of such who have been assessed and who meet the eligibility criteria for the array of funded and/or licensed housing programs; requires such office to publish such waiting lists on a monthly basis.

Requires standardized training curriculum for persons employed or volunteering at a mental health care provider facility certified or operated by the office for people with developmental disabilities.

Increases the frequency that visitation or inspections of facilities operated or licensed by the office for people with developmental disabilities must be made each year.

Directs local government units providing services to individuals with mental illness or developmental disabilities to create a single point of access system.

Creates the New York state autism council; establishes such council shall consist of sixteen members; establishes the duties of the council.

Requires employees who provide respite care services to be certified in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)/automated external defibrillator use (AED).

Relates to suicide prevention; provides that the office of mental health and the education department shall identify or develop materials for educators regarding suicide prevention measures and signs of depression among school-aged students; provides that related information shall be available on the Internet and may be included in schools.

Requires municipal approval of and a public hearing on the siting of community residential facilities for mentally disabled persons and removes the property tax exemption for such community residential facilities.

Relates to the discharge of residents of a community residence; provides that nothing shall be deemed construed as creating a relationship of landlord and tenant between an operator of a community residence and a resident; defines community residence.

Creates an environment in the workplace that does not discourage witnessing and reporting on abusive behavior and provides penalties for acts of retribution against such person.

Creates a web-based acute psychiatric bed registry to collect, aggregate and display information about available acute beds in public and private psychiatric facilities.

Provides for the annual reimbursement to licensed not-for-profit corporations which provide direct care to consumers approved for service by the office for people with developmental disabilities for the cost of employer contributions to a retirement benefit fund governed by the provisions of the Federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.

Establishes peer crisis diversion homes; requires the commissioner to establish or contract for no less than six peer crisis diversion homes within one year.

Requires video cameras to be placed on the entrances/exits of all facilities run by the office for people with developmental disabilities.

Establishes a program of tiered eligibility for services offered by the office for people with developmental disabilities for persons with learning disabilities and other complex neurological impairments.

Requires legislative approval for the closure of certain office of mental health, office for people with developmental disabilities or office of children and family services facilities and institutions.

Creates the "protection of adults with mental disabilities act."

Relates to requirements for notice to local governments, community organizations and other interested parties of the potential for significant service reductions at certain state-operated hospitals.

Relates to a bill of rights for people with developmental disabilities.

Establishes the adolescent suicide prevention advisory council.

Requires state oversight agencies to ensure that certain facilities and provider agencies have policies and procedures in place to identify and report possible crimes against a service recipient by a custodian.

Amends provisions relating to eligibility of dependents of military service members for certain developmental disability services impacted by the assignment of such service member outside of the state.

Adds adult siblings to those who may have access to clinical records.

Extends the expiration of Kendra's law from June 30, 2017 to June 30, 2022.

Amends provisions relating to eligibility of dependents of military service members for certain developmental disability services impacted by the assignment of such service member outside of the state.

Relates to prohibiting the collocation of certain facilities; prohibits the Western New York Children's Psychiatric Center from being collocated or merged with any other facility.

Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities to establish the care demonstration program to ensure continuity of care for people with developmental disabilities.

Provides that a sponsoring agency shall give notice to persons owning property within 500 feet of a proposed site of a community residential facility and requires hearings to include evaluation of alternative sites; gives the municipality additional time to respond; gives municipality sixty rather than forty days after such notice to approve or object to the proposed site.

Establishes the nineteen member autism spectrum disorders advisory board.

Regulates and restricts the reduction of the mental health census of adult homes; establishes a workgroup to study and report on the transition of persons with serious mental illness into the most integrated setting appropriate to their needs.

Requires the commissioner of mental health to develop detailed definitions of degrees of injuries that may result from attacks by persons confined to state forensic psychiatric centers.

Relates to patients interred at state mental health hospital cemeteries; directs the release of the name, birthdate and date of death of certain patients 50 years after the date of death.

Relates to NY ABLE account ownership, contributions and distributions.

Provides that dependents of military servicemembers who are transferred out of the state shall remain eligible for certain developmental disability services received under federal home and community based services programs.

Authorizes the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities to have access to certain criminal history information contained in the central data facility established by the division of criminal justice services.

Authorizes the civil committment of detained persons convicted of a misdemeanor sex offense or with a prior conviction in another state of an offense that would be a designated felony.

Adds siblings to the definition of a qualified person of an adult patient or client who may be entitled to request access to a clinical record.

Relates to requirements for notice to local governments, community organizations and other interested parties of the potential for significant service reductions at certain state-operated hospitals.

Relates to patients interred at state mental health hospital cemeteries; directs the release of the name, birthdate and date of death of certain patients 50 years after the date of death.

Requires annual radon testing of developmental disabilities shcools.

Requires legislative approval for the closure of certain office of mental health, office for people with developmental disabilities or office of children and family services facilities and institutions.

Directs the commissioner of education to post information related to receiving treatment for addiction to narcotics.

Relates to the right to counsel for persons who receive services through the office of mental health or the office for people with developmental disabilities for certain investigations.

Relates to the right to counsel for persons who receive services through the office of mental health or the office for people with developmental disabilities for certain investigations.

Requires the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities, in collaboration with the commissioner of health, to develop a plan for reimbursement of transportation services to and from day habilitation programs for people with developmental disabilities.

Directs the department of health to study and develop suitable measures to prevent financial hardship and/or failure of providers serving individuals with developmental disabilities funded by Medicaid to support the uninterrupted continuation of necessary services.

Enhances the assisted outpatient treatment program; eliminates the expiration and repeal of Kendra's Law.

Relates to the creation of a prom and graduation safety program; develops educational materials.

Provides that moneys awarded as damages or obtained by judgment or settlement as a result of a cause of action commenced against officers or employees of the office of mental health shall not be considered assets for purposes of determining whether or not there exists an inability to pay for services; provides that such moneys shall not be seized, offset or otherwise attached for the purposes of paying fees for services rendered by the department of mental hygiene.

Provides for fees for services rendered patients in state inpatient facilities pursuant to court orders to be paid by the county in which the court is located for the first thirty days.

Requires municipal approval of and a public hearing on the siting of community residential facilities for mentally disabled persons and removes the property tax exemption for such community residential facilities.

Enacts the "minority mental health act" to establish the division of minority mental health within the office of mental health; provides that such division shall be responsible for assuring that mental health programs and services are culturally and linguistically appropriate to meet the needs of racial and ethnic minorities.

Requires notice be posted in programs subject to regulation by the office for people with developmental disabilities, informing employees to call 911 during an emergency and directing them to make required reports relating to abuse or neglect to the justice center for the protection of people with special needs or to law enforcement.

Requires the sponsoring agency of a proposed community residence to provide the chief executive officer of the municipality with the number of registered sex offenders who will live in such residence.

Imposes a duty to protect upon mental health practitioners; requires reasonable efforts to modify aspects of treatment in order to reduce or eliminate the risk of harm, initiating procedures for hospitalization, notifying the intended victim or victims, or notifying law enforcement officials when a person directly communicates a threat of serious, imminent harm to self or against a readily identifiable person or persons, and the threat includes both a serious intent to act and the ability to carry out the threat; does not require a mental health practitioner to take any action which, in the exercise of reasonable professional judgment, would endanger such mental health practitioner or increase the danger to a potential victim or victims.

Relates to providing confidential OMH records to attorneys representing patients or clients involuntarily placed in correctional special housing or residential mental health treatment units.

Requires video cameras to be placed on the entrances/exits of all facilities run by the office for people with developmental disabilities.

Enacts the "behavioral health and long-term care act"; provides for the establishment of a behavioral health and long-term care plan.

Directs the commissioner to promulgate regulations for the release of patient records by the office of mental health.

Requires the sponsoring agency of a proposed community residence to provide the chief executive officer of the municipality with the number of registered sex offenders who will live in such residence.

Provides that a sponsoring agency must make a presentation at a public hearing before a residential facility for the disabled may be placed in a municipality.

Authorizes the release of certain records pertaining to deceased residents of the office for people with developmental disabilities operated or certified facilities to family members.

Authorizes the release of certain records pertaining to deceased residents of the office for people with developmental disabilities operated or certified facilities to family members.

Creates mental health incident review panels.

Provides a mental hygiene legal service to patients or residents of residential healthcare facilities who have been admitted directly from a facility and who have a chronic mental illness and are receiving services related to such illness.

Authorizes the release of certain records pertaining to deceased residents of the office for people with developmental disabilities operated or certified facilities to family members.

Establishes the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) Implementation Council to monitor studies evaluating the new diagnostic criteria and to provide recommendations for statutory amendments relating to the transition to DSM-5 from DSM-IV to ensure that individuals who would qualify for benefits and state services under DSM-IV would continue to qualify under DMS-5; makes related provisions.

Establishes the direct support professional credential pilot program to assist and attract individuals into the field of direct support, advance direct support as a career and professionalize the field to promote workforce recruitment and retention efforts, while creating a career ladder; requires the office for people with developmental disabilities to administer such pilot program for three years; makes related provisions.

Establishes peer crisis diversion homes.

Requires drug tests for potential employees of the office of mental health and the office for people with developmental disabilities.

Directs local government units providing services to individuals with mental illness or developmental disabilities to create a single point of access system.

Requires that the Office of Mental Health and the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities give consideration to the fiscal management practices of an applicant to operate a mental hygiene facility or program as part of the review of such individual's character and competence.

Requires standardized training curriculum for persons employed or volunteering at a mental health care provider facility certified or operated by the office for people with developmental disabilities.

Relates to the duty to report incidents to 911 and the county district attorney's office.

Requires the state to reimburse municipalities for loss of real property tax revenue resulting from the establishment of community residential facilities for the disabled.

Relates to the definition of autism.

Relates to the discharge of residents of a community residence; provides that nothing shall be deemed construed as creating a relationship of landlord and tenant between an operator of a community residence and a resident; defines community residence.

Creates an environment in the workplace that does not discourage witnessing and reporting on abusive behavior and provides penalties for acts of retribution against such person.

Requires the establishment of community housing waiting lists within the office of mental health service system; directs each provider of housing services in the office of mental health system to provide, on a monthly basis, the office of mental health with a list of each person referred to, admitted to, applying for, withdrawing an application for and denied admission to housing provided by such provider; requires the community-based agency performing assessments of persons with a documented mental illness to provide the office with the names of such who have been assessed and who meet the eligibility criteria for the array of funded and/or licensed housing programs; requires such office to publish such waiting lists on a monthly basis.

Relates to reports on Priority I and Priority II individuals and the services provided to such individuals.

Establishes within the department of mental hygiene a statewide central registry of persons terminated from employment for abuse, neglect or mistreatment of mentally ill or developmentally disabled persons.

Directs the commissioner of transportation, in cooperation with the commissioner of developmental disabilities, to establish an integrated transportation program for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Creates "Robin's law"; relates to mental health and chemical dependence outpatient treatment of sex offenders; requires the development of guidelines and procedures for outpatient group settings.

Prevents the commissioner of mental health from considering the source or availability of state share of medical expenses as a criterion for the issuance, expansion or renewal of an operating certificate.

Relates to suicide prevention; provides that the office of mental health and the education department shall identify or develop materials for educators regarding suicide prevention measures and signs of depression among school-aged students; provides that related information shall be available on the Internet and may be included in schools.

Establishes a health care disparities data collection system.

Authorizes former outpatients of mental health facilities to request a court of competent jurisdiction to render an order to have their files sealed when more than ten years have elapsed since the last treatment in such facility, they are not currently being treated for mental illness and it would be in the best interests of the petitioner and society to seal such record without the requirement of a special proceeding.

Provides for the annual reimbursement to licensed not-for-profit corporations which provide direct care to consumers approved for service by the office for people with developmental disabilities for the cost of employer contributions to a retirement benefit fund governed by the provisions of the Federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.

Requires tax stamps for the imposition of taxes on cigarettes to be 2x2 inches, contain a color graphic depicting an adverse effect of cigarette use, and a toll free telephone number which callers may access for information on smoking cessation.

Relates to reports of substantial risk or threat of harm by mental health professionals.

Relates to the definition of autism and autism spectrum disorder.

Creates the "protection of adults with mental disabilities act."

Establishes the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) Implementation Council to monitor studies evaluating the new diagnostic criteria and to provide recommendations for statutory amendments relating to the transition to DSM-5 from DSM-IV to ensure that individuals who would qualify for benefits and state services under DSM-IV would continue to qualify under DMS-5; makes related provisions.

Relates to the development of a statewide missing person locator system; provides that such system utilize radiodetermination technology.

Provides for the continuity of care to persons with developmental disabilities upon diminution of state operated services to such persons.

Establishes a structured review of technology systems used for locating missing children with developmental disabilities; asks for recommendations.

Relates to clinical records and confidentiality.

Establishes the New York achieving a better life experience (NY ABLE) savings account act to support individuals with disabilities to maintain health, independence and quality of life.

Relates to oversight of developmental disability care organizations and coordinate services.

Grants employees of employers, which provide services pursuant to the mental hygiene law, protection from retaliatory actions for the reporting of certain violations.

Establishes a task force on adults with developmental disabilities to study, evaluate and develop recommendations concerning vocational, recreational and social needs of such adults.

Establishes a community housing wait list for individuals seeking housing and related services within the office of mental health service system; defines terms; requires the commissioner of mental health to establish policies, procedures and forms for the community housing wait list in order to ensure that applicants and prospective applicants for housing programs, housing services providers, referring agencies and institutions and community based agencies are able to submit wait list information and other information via electronic means; makes related changes.

Makes technical changes to the protection of people with special needs act.

Relates to the right to counsel for persons who receive services through the office of mental health or the office for people with developmental disabilities for certain investigations.

Relates to the creation of a bill of rights for family and guardians of people with developmental disabilities that reside in residences certified or approved by the office for people with developmental disabilities.

Directs the commissioner of transportation, in cooperation with the commissioner of developmental disabilities, to establish an integrated transportation program for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Relates to the administration of services offered by the office for people with developmental disabilities.

Makes technical changes to the protection of people with special needs act.

Enhances the assisted outpatient treatment program; eliminates the expiration and repeal of Kendra's Law.

Creates the "protection of adults with mental disabilities act."

Relates to suicide prevention; provides that the office of mental health and the education department shall identify or develop materials for educators regarding suicide prevention measures and signs of depression among school-aged students; related information shall be available on the Internet and may be included in schools.

Relates to the community mental health support and workforce reinvestment program.

Relates to the definition of autism and autism spectrum disorder.

Establishes the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) Implementation Council to monitor studies evaluating the new diagnostic criteria and to provide recommendations for statutory amendments relating to the transition to DSM-5 from DSM-IV to ensure that individuals who would qualify for benefits and state services under DSM-IV would continue to qualify under DMS-5; makes related provisions.

Authorizes the release of certain records pertaining to deceased residents of the office for people with developmental disabilities operated or certified facilities to family members.

Authorizes the release of certain records pertaining to deceased residents of the office for people with developmental disabilities operated or certified facilities to family members.

Requires providers of services for the developmentally disabled to perform certain duties relating to the use of surveillance cameras in vehicles used to transport the developmentally disabled.

Requires providers of services for the developmentally disabled to perform certain duties relating to posting notice that state law mandates reporting all forms of abuse to local law enforcement and district attorneys and ensuring that employees are properly trained regarding the reporting of abuse.

Requires providers of services for the developmentally disabled to perform certain duties relating to the use of surveillance cameras in all public common areas in residential facilities.

Relates to patients interred at state mental health hospital cemeteries; directs the release of the name, birthdate and date of death of certain patients 50 years after the date of death.

Relates to limiting the work week of direct care workers.

Relates to notice of transfer of sex offender to community program or residence.

Relates to the discharge of residents of a community residence; provides that nothing shall be deemed construed as creating a relationship of landlord and tenant between an operator of a community residence and a resident; defines community residence.

Eliminates the alternative of strict and intensive supervision and treatment for sex offenders requiring civil management.

Requires municipal approval of and a public hearing on the siting of community residential facilities for mentally disabled persons and removes the property tax exemption for such community residential facilities.

Requires employees and volunteers providing services to persons with developmental disabilities to complete certain training.

Provides that moneys awarded as damages or obtained by judgment or settlement as a result of a cause of action commenced against officers or employees of the office of mental health shall not be considered assets for purposes of determining whether or not there exists an inability to pay for services; provides that such moneys shall not be seized, offset or otherwise attached for the purposes of paying fees for services rendered by the department of mental hygiene.

Relates to establishing a crisis intervention demonstration program.

Enacts the "integrated employment, economic development and safety net system for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities act"; directs the commissioner of developmental disabilities to produce a plan and timetable for the implementation of such act; directs the commissioner of transportation to establish a rural integrated transportation demonstration program in 6 rural counties; establishes a tax credit for integrated business enterprise investments; extends eligibility for the credit for employment of persons with disabilities to taxpayers employing persons with disabilities, who are certified by the office for people with developmental disabilities, on a full-time or part-time basis.

Relates to providing confidential OMH records to attorneys representing patients or clients involuntarily placed in correctional special housing or residential mental health treatment units.

Defines a bill of rights for persons with autism or autism spectrum disorders.

Relates to community mental health reinvestment services; directs funding towards local mental health services that meet certain criteria; prohibits use of funds for capital projects; authorizes inspection of local government records related to grand spending; relates to facility closure and bed reduction; establishes fund which shall consist of moneys attributable to such closures and reductions.

Enacts the "people first act of 2013"; defines terms; ensures that individuals with developmental disabilities who utilize long-term care services under the medical assistance program administered by the state have meaningful access to a reasonable array of community-based and institutional program options to ensure the well-being of such individuals.

Enacts the "communities of excellence mental health reinvestment act".

Creates a bill of rights for people with developmental disabilities.

Enacts the "communities of excellence mental health reinvestment act".

Regulates and restricts the reduction of the mental health census of adult homes; establishes a workgroup to study and report on the transition of persons with serious mental illness into the most integrated setting appropriate to their needs.

Requires the state to reimburse municipalities for loss of real property tax revenue resulting from the establishment of community residential facilities for the disabled.

Creates the managed care for persons with developmental disabilities advocacy program.

Directs local government units providing services to individuals with mental illness or developmental disabilities to create a single point of access system.

Provides for fees for services rendered patients in state inpatient facilities pursuant to court orders to be paid by the county in which the court is located for the first thirty days.

Directs the commissioner of mental hygiene to post information related to receiving treatment for addiction to narcotics.

Relates to reports of substantial risk or threat of harm by mental health professionals.

Relates to the discharge of residents of a community residence; provides that nothing shall be deemed construed as creating a relationship of landlord and tenant between an operator of a community residence and a resident; defines community residence.

Authorizes the release of certain records pertaining to deceased residents of the office for people with developmental disabilities operated or certified facilities to family members.

Requires drug tests for potential employees of the office of mental health and the office for people with developmental disabilities.

Requires that the Office of Mental Health and the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities give consideration to the fiscal management practices of an applicant to operate a mental hygiene facility or program as part of the review of such individual's character and competence.

Regulates the establishment and location of a methadone treatment center by prohibiting its establishment or continued operation within five hundred feet of an educational institution at the secondary level or below, day care center, park, church, synagogue or other place of worship unless located within a hospital.

Relates to mandatory reporting of allegations of physical or sexual abuse of a child with developmental, mental or physical disabilities residing in a facility operated by the department of mental hygiene or a private facility.

Prevents the commissioner of mental health from considering the source or availability of state share of medical expenses as a criterion for the issuance, expansion or renewal of an operating certificate.

Authorizes former outpatients of mental health facilities to request a court of competent jurisdiction to render an order to have their files sealed when more than ten years have elapsed since the last treatment in such facility, they are not currently being treated for mental illness and it would be in the best interests of the petitioner and society to seal such record without the requirement of a special proceeding.

Includes the executive officer of a local government's office for the aging in the composition of such government's local community services board.

Provides additional discharge planning for persons being released from civil confinement including supervision, electronic monitoring, appropriate clothing, transportation, medication and a service plan.

Directs the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities to deny employment or volunteer applications based on a criminal history report for such applicant.

Creates the New York state autism council; establishes such council shall consist of sixteen members; establishes the duties of the council.

Extends certain provisions relating to the community mental health support and workforce reinvestment program and the community health and workforce reinvestment account.

Creates a public education initiative designed to eliminate stigma and misinformation about mental illness and chemical dependence among military service members.

Provides that the state office of mental health is directed to make available, at no cost to the county, a qualified physician for the purpose of examination of persons ordered to obtain assisted outpatient treatment in certain counties.

Relates to the release of mental hygiene records pertaining to allegations and investigations of abuse or mistreatment.

Establishes the task force on adults with autism within the office for people with developmental disabilities to study, evaluate and develop recommendations relating to specific actionable measures to support and meet the needs of adults with autism.

Extends certain provisions of Jonathan's law.

Requires that gaps in services to the multiply disabled be identified and filled in the statewide goals and objectives of the offices of the department of mental hygiene; requires the statewide five-year comprehensive plan for services to the mentally disabled include a review and evaluation of an implemented or planned shift and/or increase in medical assistance funding for services.

Enacts the "behavioral health and long-term care act"; provides for the establishment of a behavioral health and long-term care plan.

Relates to the training of boards of directors or trustees of certain voluntary not-for-profit facilities or corporations.

Provides that directors of in-patient facilities and hospitals shall designate safety officers to act as special policemen.

Extends certain provisions of Jonathan's law.

Creates a public education initiative designed to eliminate stigma and misinformation about mental illness and chemical dependence among military service members.

Enacts the skills for direct support professional jobs for the developmentally disabled act.

Directs the commissioner of mental health to promulgate regulations requiring the segregation of sex offender patients from those who are not sex offenders.

Relates to the definition of autism.

Requires providers of services for the developmentally disabled to perform certain duties relating to posting notice that state law mandates reporting all forms of abuse to local law enforcement and district attorneys and ensuring that employees are properly trained regarding the reporting of abuse.

Requires providers of services for the developmentally disabled to perform certain duties relating to providing a medical examination whenever an allegation of abuse or neglect of a child or adult is reported.

Regulates the establishment and location of a methadone treatment center by prohibiting its establishment or continued operation within five hundred feet of an educational institution at the secondary level or below, day care center, park, church, synagogue or other place of worship unless located within a hospital.

Requires insurers offering renewal of certain Medicare supplemental insurance policies or providing notification of a change in premiums of such policies to notify policyholders of the availability of policies offered by such insurer with similar benefits at a comparable premium or the ability of such policyholder to purchase a different policy without the pre-existing condition waiting period; applies to policies for which such insurers no longer accept new contracts but continue to renew for existing policyholders.

Authorizes a certified psychologist or a certified nurse practitioner, in addition to other authorized individuals, to make a recommendation of the type of residence in which a patient is to live upon release into the community.

Authorizes the release of certain records pertaining to deceased residents of the office for people with developmental disabilities operated or certified facilities to family members.

Relates to the release of mental hygiene records pertaining to allegations and investigations of abuse or mistreatment.

Provides for disclosure of sexual offender information related to a patient or client.

Provides that the state office of mental health is directed to make available, at no cost to the county, a qualified physician for the purpose of examination of persons ordered to obtain assisted outpatient treatment in certain counties.

Requires drug tests for potential employees of the office of mental health and the office for people with developmental disabilities.

Relates to limiting the work week of direct care workers.

Prohibits the dissemination of certain personal information, including but not limited to, names, addresses, children and bank accounts, when such information relates to a petition for guardianship.

Requires the office of mental health to develop educational materials for educators regarding suicide prevention.

Changes references from developmental centers to developmental disabilities services offices in relation to on-site client advocacy.

Increases the frequency that visitation or inspections of facilities operated or licensed by the office for people with developmental disabilities must be made each year.

Increases the frequency that visitation or inspections of facilities operated or licensed by the office for people with developmental disabilities must be made each year.

Provides that a sponsoring agency must make a presentation at a public hearing before a residential facility for the disabled may be placed in a municipality.

Provides a mental hygiene legal service to patients or residents of residential healthcare facilities who have been admitted directly from a facility and who have a chronic mental illness and are receiving services related to such illness.

Provides a mental hygiene legal service to patients or residents of residential healthcare facilities who have been admitted directly from a facility and who have a chronic mental illness and are receiving services related to such illness.

Authorizes nurse practitioners to admit a patient to an inpatient mental health unit on a voluntary or involuntary basis.

Establishes the task force on adults with autism within the office for people with developmental disabilities to study, evaluate and develop recommendations relating to specific actionable measures to support and meet the needs of adults with autism.

Requires employees who provide respite care services to be certified in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)/automated external defibrillator use (AED).

Provides the community guardian program shall obtain annually a statement prepared by a physician, psychologist, nurse clinician, social worker, or other person, evaluating the condition and current functional level of the person for whom the community guardian program serves as guardian.

Provides the community guardian program shall obtain annually a statement prepared by a physician, psychologist, nurse clinician, social worker, or other person, evaluating the condition and current functional level of the person for whom the community guardian program serves as guardian.

Grants the municipality sixty rather than forty days after such notice to approve or object to the proposed site for a community residential facility.

Provides that the provisions creating the abuse prevention notification system shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day and providing that the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities shall take steps to ensure creation of such system and promulgation of necessary rules and regulations.

Requires that the Office of Mental Health and the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities give consideration to the fiscal management practices of an applicant to operate a mental hygiene facility or program as part of the review of such individual's character and competence.

Relates to the review of criminal history information of certain persons rendering community based services to individuals with mental illness or developmental disabilities.

Creates the New York state autism council; establishes such council shall consist of sixteen members; establishes the duties of the council.

Directs the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities to deny employment or volunteer applications based on a criminal history report for such applicant.

Directs the commissioner of mental hygiene to post information related to receiving treatment for addiction to narcotics.

Relates to the discharge of residents of a community residence; provides that nothing shall be deemed construed as creating a relationship of landlord and tenant between an operator of a community residence and a resident; defines community residence.

Relates to disqualification of employment for certain criminal history information and deeming an individual with a developmental disability as incapable of giving consent.

Requires the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services to develop educational materials for health care providers and qualified health professionals relating to screening and referrals for prescription drug abuse and misuse.

Requires the office of mental retardation and developmental disabilities and other entities operating under its auspices to request the fingerprints from their current and prospective employees to facilitate background checks for criminal histories; makes procedural provisions therefor; requires the establishment of a mental retardation and developmental disabilities workers registry.

Establishes minimum staffing ratios in facilities operated under the jurisdiction of the office of mental health; provides that the office of mental health shall report quarterly to the governor and the legislature setting forth present staff ratios and comparisons to past staff ratios.

Provides guidelines and aides in locating sites for community residential facilities; requires OPDD to conduct study on location of proposed sites.

Establishes a right to treatment for seriously emotionally disturbed children who are certified by the pre-admission certification committee and waiting to be placed in a residential placement facility for children and youth; commissioner is required to evaluate what services are needed and how to provide them.

Establishes a temporary epilepsy task force to develop eligibility guidelines for the office of metal retardation and developmental disabilities services for persons with epilepsy; requires such task force to report to the governor, commissioner of mental retardation and developmental disabilities, and the legislature within 18 months and such guidelines shall be implemented within 6 months of the filing of such report.

Provides for the annual reimbursement to licensed not-for-profit corporations which provide direct care to consumers approved for service by the office of metal retardation and developmental disabilities for the cost of employer contributions to a retirement benefit fund governed by the provisions of the Federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.

Enacts provisions relating to the use of electroconvulsive therapy; bans the use of such therapy on persons less than 16 years of age and restricts the use of such therapy on persons 65 years of age or older.

Amends part R2 of chapter 62 of the laws of 2003, amending the mental hygiene law and the state finance law relating to the community mental health support and workforce reinvestment program and the membership of subcommittees for mental health of community service boards and the duties of such subcommittees and creating the community health and workforce reinvestment account, in relation to the effective date.

Requires the state to pay the costs of prosecution of an inmate-patient of a state psychiatric facility where the inmate-patient commits an offense while in the custody of the department.

Prohibits the co-mingling of adolescent and adult patients in office of mental health run residential facilities.

Requires standardized training curriculum for persons employed or volunteering at a mental health care provider certified or operated by the office for people with developmental disabilities.

Relates to state mental health and developmental disabilities programs, offices and issues.

Directs the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities, the commissioner of education, the commissioner of health and the commissioner of mental health to study and report the costs to the state for the early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder and the long-term treatment for individuals with autism spectrum disorder.