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S04130 Summary:

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Amd §§47.01 & 47.03, Ment Hyg L; add §508-a, Exec L

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Provides legal assistance to youth ordered by the court into the custody of the office of children and family services and placed or committed to a state operated juvenile detention center.

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02/03/2025REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH

01/07/2026REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 4130

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 3, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- 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 and the executive law, in
 relation to providing legal assistance to youth ordered by the court
 into the custody of the office of children and family services and
 placed or committed to a state operated juvenile detention center

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 47.01 of the mental hygiene law,
 2 as amended by chapter 658 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 (a) There shall be a mental hygiene legal service of the state in each
 5 judicial department. The service shall provide legal assistance to
 6 patients or residents of a facility as defined in section 1.03 of this
 7 chapter, patients or residents of residential healthcare facilities
 8 licensed and operating pursuant to article twenty-eight of the public
 9 health law who have been admitted directly from a facility as defined in
 10 section 1.03 of this chapter and who have a serious mental illness as
 11 defined in section 1.03 of this chapter and are receiving services
 12 related to such illness, or any other place or facility which is
 13 required to have an operating certificate pursuant to article sixteen or
 14 thirty-one of this chapter, and to persons alleged to be in need of care
 15 and treatment in such facilities or places, and to persons entitled to
 16 such legal assistance as provided by article ten of this chapter. The
 17 service shall also provide legal assistance to youth offered by the
 18 court into the custody of the office of children and family services and
 19 placed or committed to a state operated juvenile detention center. The
 20 head of such service in each judicial department and such assistants and
 21 such staff as may be necessary shall be appointed and may be removed by
 22 the presiding justice of the appellate division of the judicial depart-
 23 ment. Appointments and transfers to the service shall comply with the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07677-01-5

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 1 provisions of the civil service law. Standards for qualifications of the
 2 personnel in the service shall be established by the presiding justice
 3 of the appellate division of the judicial department. The presiding
 4 justice of the appellate division of the judicial department shall
 5 promulgate such rules or regulations as may be necessary to effectuate
 6 the purposes of this article.
 7 § 2. Section 47.03 of the mental hygiene law, as added by chapter 789
 8 of the laws of 1985, subdivision (c) as amended by chapter 408 of the
 9 laws of 1999, subdivisions (d) and (e) as amended and subdivision (f) as
 10 added by chapter 7 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
 11 § 47.03 Functions, powers and duties of the service.
 12 The mental hygiene legal service in each judicial department of the
 13 state shall perform the following duties:
 14 (a) To study and review the admission and retention of all patients or
 15 residents which shall include a review of the willingness of the patient
 16 or resident to remain in [his or her] their status and the determination
 17 of the facility director as to suitability of such status, as provided
 18 for by this chapter;
 19 (b) To inform patien