Requires the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services to develop training materials for health care providers and qualified health professionals, recognized by the office to enable the implementation of the screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment program, regarding screening for alcoholism and chemical dependency.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3391
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 29, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. CYMBROWITZ, CRESPO, MONTESANO, ORTIZ, COLTON --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ARROYO -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to requiring the
office of alcoholism and substance abuse services to develop training
materials for health care providers and qualified health professionals
to encourage implementation of the screening, brief intervention, and
referral to treatment program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 19.07 of the mental hygiene law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision (m) to read as follows:
3 (m) The office of alcoholism and substance abuse services, in consul-
4 tation with the commissioner of health, shall provide and publish, in
5 electronic or other format, training materials for health care provid-
6 ers, as defined by subdivision six of section two hundred thirty-eight
7 of the public health law, and qualified health professionals, recognized
8 by the office to enable the implementation of the screening, brief
9 intervention, and referral to treatment program (SBIRT). Such training
10 materials shall include any and all materials necessary to inform health
11 care providers and qualified health professionals of the method for
12 administering the SBIRT program to a patient in the care of health care
13 providers or qualified health professionals. Such training materials
14 shall be made available to health care providers and qualified health
15 professionals through the official websites of the office and the
16 department of health and by any other means deemed appropriate by the
17 commissioner.
18 § 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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