Designates services to be provided by a jail-based substance use disorder treatment, peer led recovery support services, and transition services program as essential medical care services.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4956
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 14, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Alcoholism and
Substance Use Disorders
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to designating
services to be provided by a jail-based substance use disorder treat-
ment, peer led recovery support services, and transition services
program as essential medical care services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 19.18-c of the mental hygiene law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
3 6. Services to be provided by a jail-based substance use disorder
4 treatment, peer led recovery support services, and transition services
5 program pursuant to subdivision two of this section shall be deemed
6 essential medical care services.
7 § 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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