Exempts police and peace officers receiving treatment from mandatory reporting of substantial risk or threat of harm by mental health professionals, unless the mental health professional determines, based on reasonable professional judgment, that the condition impairs such person's ability to perform their job duties.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9289
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
December 10, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. KAY -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Mental Health
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to reports of
substantial risk or threat of harm by mental health professionals
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 9.46 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision (e) to read as follows:
3 (e) The provisions of subdivision (b) of this section shall not apply
4 where the person receiving treatment services is a current sworn police
5 officer or peace officer as such terms are defined in section 1.20 of
6 the criminal procedure law, unless the mental health professional deter-
7 mines, based on reasonable professional judgment, that the condition
8 impairs such person's ability to perform their job duties.
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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