New York S 5953: Establishes a crisis intervention team program

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S05953 Summary:

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Add §§7.51, 7.53 & 7.55, amd §19.07, Ment Hyg L; add §99-ss, St Fin L; add §209-h, Gen Muni L

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Establishes a crisis intervention team training demonstration program; establishes a crisis intervention team training program advisory committee and crisis intervention team training fund.

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03/04/2025REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH

01/07/2026REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 5953

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 4, 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, the state finance law and the
 general municipal law, in relation to establishing a crisis inter-
 vention team program

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

 1 Section 1. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding three new
 2 sections 7.51, 7.53 and 7.55 to read as follows:
 3 § 7.51 Crisis intervention team training program.
 4 (a) The commissioner shall establish a crisis intervention team train-
 5 ing demonstration program for the purpose of assisting law enforcement
 6 officers in responding to crisis situations involving persons with
 7 mental illness and/or substance abuse problems.
 8 (b) The commissioner shall establish within the office the position of
 9 crisis intervention team training program coordinator who will serve at
 10 the pleasure of the commissioner and who shall work with the New York
 11 police department and any other law enforcement agency in the state that
 12 requests assistance to coordinate the provision of crisis intervention
 13 team training to its first responders as a part of a specialized
 14 response team or as part of the training for first responders.
 15 (c) The crisis intervention team training program coordinator shall:
 16 (i) work with communities to develop partnerships, coordinate activ-
 17 ities and promote cooperation and collaboration between the office,
 18 office of addiction services and supports, law enforcement agencies,
 19 disability service providers and people with psychiatric or other disa-
 20 bilities and their families to provide crisis intervention team train-
 21 ing;
 22 (ii) provide coordination activities and funding support for crisis
 23 intervention team training;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10493-01-5

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 1 (iii) provide support, training and community coordination to ensure
 2 that mental health service providers in the community provide alterna-
 3 tives to incarceration;
 4 (iv) through federal and private grants, gifts or contributions,
 5 provide funding to support training and community coordination costs as
 6 necessary. All moneys shall be deposited in the crisis intervention team
 7 training fund established by section ninety-nine-ss of the state finance
 8 law;
 9 (v) in consultation with the crisis intervention team training program
 10 advisory committee established by this article, distribute crisis inter-
 11 vention team training fund moneys as needed for support, training and
 12 community coordination costs; and
 13 (vi) submit a report to the governor, temporary president of the
 14 senate, speaker of the assembly and the crisis intervention team train-
 15 ing program advisory committee on or before November fifteenth of each
 16 year that contains the following:
 17 (A) a review of all law enforcement agencies that have provided crisis
 18 intervention team training to their officers and the number of officers
 19 that have completed the training;
 20 (B) a list of communities in this state that have implemented the
 21 crisis intervention team training program through training and coordi-
 22 nation, including the length of implementation and current status of the
 23 prog