New York S 976: Provides for the emergency or involuntary admission of persons with mental illness when there is a risk of serious physical harm or serious psychiatric harm

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S00976 Summary:

BILL NOS00976 

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Add Art 2 Title 9 §269-e, Pub Health L

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Relates to authorizing local or regional accidental fatality review teams; authorizes an accidental fatality review team to be established at a local or regional level, with the approval of the department of health, for the purpose of investigating the unexpected or unexplained death of any person including but not limited to deaths suspected to be caused by overdose or suicide.

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BILL NOS00976 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 976

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. ROLISON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to authorizing local
 or regional accidental fatality review teams

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

 1 Section 1. Article 2 of the public health law is amended by adding a
 2 new title 9 to read as follows:
 3 TITLE 9
 4 LOCAL OR REGIONAL ACCIDENTAL FATALITY REVIEW TEAMS
 5 Section 269-e. Local or regional accidental fatality review teams.
 6 § 269-e. Local or regional accidental fatality review teams. 1. An
 7 accidental fatality review team may be established at a local or
 8 regional level, with the approval of the department, for the purpose of
 9 investigating the unexpected or unexplained death of any person includ-
 10 ing but not limited to deaths suspected to be caused by overdose or
 11 suicide.
 12 2. For the purposes of this section, a local or regional accidental
 13 fatality review team shall include, but need not be limited to, repre-
 14 sentatives from the department, county department of health, or, should
 15 the locality not have a county department of health, the local health
 16 commissioner or such commissioner's designee or the local public health
 17 director or such director's designee, office of mental health, office of
 18 alcoholism and substance abuse, county department of mental health,
 19 office of the medical examiner, or, should the locality not have a
 20 medical examiner, office of the coroner, office of the district attor-
 21 ney, office of the county attorney, local and state law enforcement,
 22 emergency medical services, a physician or comparable medical profes-
 23 sional, preferably with expertise in the areas of substance abuse or
 24 mental health, and a substance abuse program provider. A local or

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00402-01-5

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 1 regional accidental fatality review team may also include represen-
 2 tatives from medical facilities, including hospitals or other appropri-
 3 ate agencies or institutions, domestic violence agencies, and substance
 4 abuse programs.
 5 3. A local or regional accidental fatality review team established
 6 pursuant to this section shall have access to all records, except those
 7 protected by statutory privilege, within twenty-one days of receipt of a
 8 request.
 9 4. Members of a local or regional accidental fatality review team,
 10 persons attending a meeting of a local or regional accidental fatality
 11 review team, and persons who present information to a local or regional
 12 accidental fatality review team shall have immunity from civil and crim-
 13 inal liability for all reasonable and good faith actions taken pursuant
 14 to this section, and shall not be questioned in any civil or criminal
 15 proceeding regarding any opinions formed as a result of a meeting of a
 16 local or regional accidental fatality review team. Nothing in this
 17 section shall be construed to prevent a person from testifying as to
 18 information obtained independently of a local or regional accidental
 19 fatality review team or which is public information.
 20