New York S 6081: Extends certain provisions of law relating to the foster family care demonstration programs

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Add §7.42, Ment Hyg L; add §628-a, Tax L; add §89-l, St Fin L

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Establishes the child psychiatry access project; provides that the office of mental hygiene shall establish regional child psychiatry access projects across the state to provide primary care providers with timely access to child psychiatry consultations in order to assist such primary care providers in meeting the mental health needs of the children and adolescents and their families; establishes a gift for the child psychiatry access project on state personal income tax forms, the proceeds from which shall be deposited into a child psychiatry access fund for the funding of such projects.

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03/05/2025REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH

01/07/2026REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 6081

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 5, 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, in relation to establishing the
 child psychiatry access project; to amend the tax law, in relation to
 establishing a gift for the child psychiatry access project; and to
 amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing the child
 psychiatry access fund

 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 a new section
 2 7.42 to read as follows:
 3 § 7.42 Child psychiatry access project.
 4 (a) The office shall, within amounts appropriated therefor, establish
 5 or may contract for the establishment of regional child psychiatry
 6 access projects across the state to provide primary care providers with
 7 timely access to child psychiatry consultations in order to assist such
 8 primary care providers in meeting the mental health needs of the chil-
 9 dren and adolescents and their families.
 10 (b) Regional teams shall consist of a child psychiatrist with appro-
 11 priate support staff, and be established to provide child psychiatric
 12 telephone consultations to primary care providers within the designated
 13 region resulting in one of the following, depending upon the needs of
 14 the child patient and/or family:
 15 1. Responding to the primary care physician's patient specific ques-
 16 tions about behavioral health;
 17 2. Assisting the family in accessing routine, local behavioral health
 18 services, with the understanding there may be a waiting period;
 19 3. Providing transitional support to the child patient and family
 20 until the family can access routine, local behavioral health services;
 21 4. Making referral to a team child psychiatrist for an acute psycho-
 22 pharmacologic or diagnostic consultation.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10658-01-5

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 1 (c) Regional teams may also provide mental health resource services,
 2 educational services, mental health advocacy and other related services
 3 to the provider and mental health community.
 4 (d) Child psychiatry access services provided under this section shall
 5 not discriminate against children and families, based upon their insur-
 6 ance status, when such services are accessed through their primary care
 7 provider practicing in the region.
 8 § 2. The tax law is amended by adding a new section 628-a to read as
 9 follows:
 10 § 628-a. Gift for the child psychiatry access project. Effective for
 11 any tax year commencing on or after January first, two thousand twenty-
 12 five, an individual in any taxable year may elect to contribute to the
 13 child psychiatry access fund. Such contribution shall be in any whole
 14 dollar amount and shall not reduce the amount of state tax owed by such
 15 individual. The commissioner shall include space on the personal income
 16 tax return form to