New York A 4512: Relates to the ability for school districts to implement telehealth school-based mental health clinics

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A04512 Summary:

BILL NOA04512 

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SAME ASSAME AS S00584

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SPONSORGallahan

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COSPNSRBrabenec, Raga

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §414, Ed L; amd §2999-dd, Pub Health L; add §99-ss, St Fin L; amd §1367, RWB L

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Grants school districts the ability to implement telehealth school-based mental health clinics; establishes the student mental telehealth reimbursement fund; relates to funding the student mental telehealth reimbursement fund.

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BILL NOA04512 

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02/04/2025referred to education

01/07/2026referred to education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4512

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 4, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. GALLAHAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law and the public health law, in relation
 to the ability for school districts to implement telehealth school-
 based mental health clinics; to amend the state finance law, in
 relation to the student mental telehealth reimbursement fund; and to
 amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, in relation
 to funding the student mental telehealth reimbursement fund

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

 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (j) of subdivision 1 of
 2 section 414 of the education law, as amended by chapter 672 of the laws
 3 of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
 4 (i) For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "licensed school-
 5 based health, dental or mental health clinic" means a clinic that is
 6 located in a school facility of a school district or board of cooper-
 7 ative educational services, is operated by an entity other than the
 8 school district or board of cooperative educational services and will
 9 provide health, dental or mental health services during school hours
 10 and/or non-school hours to school-age and preschool children, and that
 11 is: (1) a health clinic approved under the provisions of chapter one
 12 hundred ninety-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred seventy-eight; or
 13 (2) another school-based health or dental clinic licensed by the depart-
 14 ment of health pursuant to article twenty-eight of the public health
 15 law; or (3) a school-based mental health clinic licensed or approved by
 16 the office of mental health pursuant to article thirty-one of the mental
 17 hygiene law; or (4) a school-based mental health clinic licensed by the
 18 office for people with developmental disabilities pursuant to article
 19 sixteen of the mental hygiene law; or (5) a school-based mental health
 20 clinic licensed pursuant to the sections above that operates as a tele-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01329-01-5

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 1 health clinic as defined pursuant to section twenty-nine hundred nine-
 2 ty-nine-cc of the public health law.
 3 § 2. Section 2999-dd of the public health law is amended by adding a
 4 new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
 5 3-a. The commissioner of education, in consultation with the commis-
 6 sioner, the commissioner of mental health, and the commissioner of the
 7 office of persons with developmental disabilities, shall develop minimum
 8 qualifications for school districts to operate telehealth school-based
 9 mental health clinics. Such qualifications shall be consistent with best
 10 practices pursuant to school-based mental health clinics as currently
 11 operated under existing law.
 12 § 3. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-ss to
 13 read as follows:
 14 § 99-ss. Student mental telehealth reimbursement fund. 1. There is
 15 hereby established in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the
 16 commissioner of taxation and finance a fund to be known as the student
 17 mental telehealth reimbursement fund.
 18 2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues generated pursuant to
 19 subdivision eight of section thirteen hundred sixty-seven of the racing,
 20 pari-mutuel