Provides that members of a mobile crisis team shall include at least one behavioral health professional and any combination of certified peer specialists, certified recovery peer advocates, credentialed family peer advocates, and credentialed youth peer advocates.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5978
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 4, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to members of a
mobile crisis team
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 11 of subdivision (a) of section 36.03 of the
2 mental hygiene law, as added by section 2 of part EE of chapter 57 of
3 the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
4 (11) "Mobile crisis teams" means a team licensed, certified, or
5 authorized by the office of mental health and the office of addiction
6 services and supports to provide community-based mental health or
7 substance use disorder interventions for individuals who are experienc-
8 ing a mental health or substance use disorder crisis. Members of a
9 mobile crisis team [may] shall include at least one behavioral health
10 professional, and to the extent practicable, any combination of, [but
11 not be limited to: behavioral health professionals,] certified peer
12 specialists, certified recovery peer advocates, credentialed family peer
13 advocates, and credentialed youth peer advocates.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06532-03-5
