STATE OF NEW YORK
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5554
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 14, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SIMON, SANTABARBARA, BRABENEC -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Mental Health
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to requiring certain
fees be deposited into the mental illness anti-stigma fund
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 8 of subdivision (a) of section 31.04 of the
2 mental hygiene law, as added by section 1 of part Z of chapter 57 of the
3 laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
4 8. establishing a schedule of fees for the purpose of processing
5 applications for the issuance of operating certificates. All fees pursu-
6 ant to this section shall be payable to the [office for deposit into the
7 general] mental illness anti-stigma fund established pursuant to section
8 ninety-five-h of the state finance law.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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