Relates to reviewing suicide prevention programs periodically and making recommendations regarding cultural and linguistic competency and best practices for screening and interventions aimed at addressing suicide risk factors for minority groups and other underrepresented populations.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6761--B
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 16, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. ALCANTARA, HAMILTON, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Rules -- recommitted to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop-
mental Disabilities in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to reviewing suicide
prevention programs periodically
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 7.07 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision (g) to read as follows:
3 (g) The office shall periodically review suicide prevention programs
4 established, licensed, certified, or funded by the office to ensure that
5 the needs of individuals at risk of suicide are being met and make
6 recommendations to improve such programs, which shall include but not be
7 limited to: (1) cultural and linguistic competency; and (2) best prac-
8 tices for screening and interventions aimed at addressing suicide risk
9 factors for minority groups and other underrepresented populations.
10 § 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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