STATE OF NEW YORK
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9571
IN ASSEMBLY
March 16, 2022
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Introduced by M. of A. DICKENS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to limiting the
amount of addiction and substance abuse facilities in the city of New
York
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (b) of section 19.17 of the mental hygiene law,
2 as amended by chapter 596 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 (b) The commissioner shall establish the areas which each facility
5 under his or her jurisdiction shall serve and the categories of patients
6 which each such facility shall receive, retain, or treat. In cities with
7 a population of one million or more, the commissioner shall ensure that
8 there are no more than five facilities operating pursuant to this arti-
9 cle within the jurisdiction of each community board. The commissioner
10 shall provide for priority of admission for persons whose children have
11 been placed in foster care or are in jeopardy of being so placed pursu-
12 ant to article ten of the family court act or article six of the social
13 services law.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
15 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14787-01-2
