New York A 5484: Relates to establishing a statewide person-centered mental health services work group

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A05484 Summary:

BILL NOA05484 

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SAME ASSAME AS S05821

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SPONSORSimon

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COSPNSRReyes, Hevesi, Davila, Chandler-Waterman, Carroll R, De Los Santos, Maher, Romero, Paulin,
 Lunsford, Sayegh, Rosenthal, Santabarbara, Jackson, Meeks, Ramos, Anderson, Lucas, Kassay, Cook

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MLTSPNSR

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Establishes a statewide person-centered mental health services work group to improve statewide mental health planning and outcomes to achieve a person-centered, prevention-first integrated and tiered system of care for holistic health and wellness.

Go to top A05484 Actions:

BILL NOA05484 

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02/14/2025referred to mental health

01/07/2026referred to mental health

01/21/2026reported referred to ways and means

Go to topA05484 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:MENTAL HEALTH Chair:Simon 
DATE:01/21/2026AYE/NAY:11/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Ways and Means SimonAyeSempolinskiAye

SantabarbaraExcusedBrownAye

JacksonAyeBaileyAye

GibbsAyeSlaterAye

De Los SantosAye

EachusAye

BergerExcused

Chandler-WatermAye

TapiaAye

Go to topA05484 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA05484 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5484

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. SIMON, REYES, HEVESI, DAVILA, CHANDLER-WATERMAN,
 R. CARROLL, DE LOS SANTOS, MAHER -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Mental Health

 AN ACT in relation to establishing a statewide person-centered mental
 health services work group to improve statewide mental health planning
 and outcomes to achieve a person-centered, prevention-first integrated
 and tiered system of care for holistic health and wellness

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

 1 Section 1. Statewide person-centered mental health services work
 2 group. 1. There is hereby created a person-centered mental health
 3 services work group to examine, evaluate, determine, recommend, and
 4 oversee implementation of how to improve statewide mental health plan-
 5 ning and outcomes to achieve a person-centered, prevention-first inte-
 6 grated and tiered system of care for holistic health and wellness.
 7 2. The work group shall consist of ten statewide members, four ex
 8 officio members, and twenty-eight regional representative members,
 9 appointed as follows:
 10 (a) Statewide members. Statewide members shall be appointed within
 11 sixty days of the effective date of this act:
 12 (i) two members shall be appointed by the temporary president of the
 13 senate, one of which must be a peer or consumer representative;
 14 (ii) two members shall be appointed by the speaker of the assembly,
 15 one of which must be a peer or consumer representative;
 16 (iii) one member shall be appointed by the minority leader of the
 17 senate;
 18 (iv) one member shall be appointed by the minority leader of the
 19 assembly; and
 20 (v) four members shall be appointed by the governor, one of which must
 21 be a peer or consumer representative.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08463-01-5

 A. 5484 2

 1 (b) Ex officio members. The commissioners of the office of addiction
 2 services and supports, the office of mental health, the department of
 3 health, the New York city department of health and mental hygiene, and
 4 the local mental hygiene directors, or their designees, shall serve as
 5 ex officio members of the work group.
 6 (c) Regional membership and appointments. (i) For purposes of this
 7 act, there shall be nine regions, consisting of the same geographic
 8 areas and counties as the social care networks described in the January
 9 2024 New York State Department of Health Request for Applications: New
 10 York Health Equity Reform: Social Care Networks:
 11 (1) Region 1: Capital;
 12 (2) Region 2: Western;
 13 (3) Region 3: Hudson Valley;
 14 (4) Region 4: New York City;
 15 (5) Region 5: Finger Lakes;
 16 (6) Region 6: Southern Tier;
 17 (7) Region 7: Central;
 18 (8) Region 8: Long Island;
 19 (9) Region 9: North Country.
 20 (ii) There shall be three members from each region, except New York
 21 City, w