New York A 4108: Requires that annual reports be distributed in electronic format only, unless otherwise requested by a member

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A04108 Summary:

BILL NOA04108 

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SAME ASSAME AS S09745

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SPONSORCunningham

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COSPNSRSantabarbara, De Los Santos, Reyes, Burdick, Wright, Hevesi, Shimsky, Tapia, Levenberg

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §36.03, Ment Hyg L; add §85, St Fin L

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Imposes a surcharge on monthly phone bills to fund the costs associated with the administration, design, installation, construction, operation, and maintenance of a 9-8-8 suicide prevention and behavioral health crisis hotline in New York state; establishes the 9-8-8 suicide prevention and behavioral health crisis hotline trust fund.

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BILL NOA04108 

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01/31/2025referred to mental health

01/07/2026referred to mental health

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Go to topA04108 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4108

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 31, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. CUNNINGHAM, SANTABARBARA, DE LOS SANTOS -- read
 once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health

 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law and the state finance law, in
 relation to imposing a surcharge on phone bills to fund 9-8-8 suicide
 prevention and behavioral health crisis hotline system service

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

 1 Section 1. Section 36.03 of the mental hygiene law is amended by
 2 adding a new subdivision (g) to read as follows:
 3 (g) (1) When used in this subdivision, the following words and phrases
 4 shall have the following meanings:
 5 (i) "Service supplier" means (A) a telephone corporation which
 6 provides local exchange access service within the state; or (B) a
 7 provider of voice over internet protocol service that provides such
 8 service within the state.
 9 (ii) "Voice over internet protocol service" shall mean any service
 10 that (A) enables real-time, two-way voice communications; (B) requires a
 11 broadband connection from the user's location; (C) requires internet
 12 protocol compatible customer premises equipment (CPE); and (D) permits
 13 users generally to receive calls that originate on the public switched
 14 telephone network and to terminate calls to the public switched tele-
 15 phone network.
 16 (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, the
 17 commissioner, in conjunction with the commissioner of the office of
 18 addiction services and supports, is hereby authorized and empowered to
 19 adopt, amend or repeal any rule or regulation necessary to impose a
 20 surcharge in an amount not to exceed thirty-five cents per access line
 21 per month on the customers of every service supplier within the state to
 22 pay for the costs associated with the administration, design, installa-
 23 tion, construction, operation, or maintenance of a 9-8-8 suicide
 24 prevention and behavioral health crisis hotline system serving the state

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06540-01-5

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 1 and to support the crisis intervention services and follow-up services
 2 provided to individuals accessing the 9-8-8 suicide prevention behav-
 3 ioral health crisis hotline. The commissioner is authorized and
 4 empowered to increase the amount of such surcharge in a certain county
 5 or city with a population of one million or more upon the request of
 6 such county or city with a population of one million or more to an
 7 amount not to exceed the surcharge adopted by such county or city with a
 8 population of one million or more under article six or six-A of the
 9 county law.
 10 (3) Any such rule or regulation shall state the amount of the
 11 surcharge, the date on which the service supplier shall begin to add
 12 such surcharge to the billings of its customers and, to the extent prac-
 13 ticable, the date on which such 9-8-8 suicide prevention and behavioral
 14 health crisis hotline system service is to begin. Such rule or regu-
 15 lation may authorize the service supplier to begin billing its customers
 16 for such surcharge prior to the date on which such 9-8-8 suicide
 17 preven