New York A 3568: Relates to access to mental health care services for emergency dispatchers

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3568
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 28, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Employees
        AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to access  to  mental
          health care services for emergency dispatchers
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The civil service law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  155 to read as follows:
     3    §  155. Access to mental health care for certain employees. No collec-
     4  tive bargaining agreement or employment contract entered into by a muni-
     5  cipality and an employee or an employee organization representing  emer-
     6  gency  dispatchers  employed  by such municipality shall require that an
     7  emergency dispatcher obtain approval  from,  or  provide  notice  to,  a
     8  supervisor  to  access  mental  or  behavioral  health care services. No
     9  mental or behavioral health care services requested or  received  by  an
    10  emergency dispatcher shall be disclosed to a municipal employer.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in  (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
                              [] is old law to be omitted. 
                                                                   LBD06662-01-5