STATE OF NEW YORK
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5352
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 2, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- 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 requiring indi-
viduals to provide advanced notice prior to applying to operate
certain facilities or services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 19.21 of the mental hygiene law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision (e) to read as follows:
3 (e) The office shall require individuals planning to apply to operate
4 facilities and services related to alcoholism programs, substance use
5 disorder programs, and chemical dependence programs, and any program or
6 facility purporting to provide such services, to provide advanced notice
7 to municipalities and community boards in the communities to be served
8 by such facility or service. Such notice shall be provided no less than
9 sixty days before such individual applies to open such facility or
10 service.
11 § 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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