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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7686
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 19, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. FRONTUS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Mental Health
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to providing crisis
intervention team training, mental health first aid, implicit bias
training and naloxone training to firefighters and emergency medical
services personnel
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (g) of section 36.01 of the mental hygiene law,
2 as added by section 3 of part AA of chapter 57 of the laws of 2021, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (g) Within the amounts appropriated, the commissioners shall arrange
5 for appropriate training to law enforcement entities, first responders,
6 including but not limited to firefighters and emergency medical services
7 personnel, and any other entities deemed appropriate by the commission-
8 ers, located within the catchment area of a crisis stabilization center.
9 The training may include but not be limited to: (1) crisis intervention
10 team training; (2) mental health first aid; (3) implicit bias training;
11 and (4) naloxone training. Such training may be provided in an electron-
12 ic format or other format as deemed appropriate by the commissioners.
13 The commissioners may contract with an organization with the knowledge
14 and expertise in providing the training required under this subdivision.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
16 manner as section 3 of part AA of chapter 57 of the laws of 2021, takes
17 effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11592-01-1
