A11215 • 2025

Relates to joint certification of certified community behavioral health clinics

Healthcare

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Sponsor: Jo Anne Simon
Last action: 2026-05-01
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to joint certification of certified community behavioral health clinics

Relates to joint certification of certified community behavioral health clinics Provides for administrative review when applying for an additional certification by applicants to become certified community behavioral health clinics if such applicant is already certified by either the department of mental health or the office of addiction services and supports and is in good standing for five or more years.

What This Bill Does

Relates to joint certification of certified community behavioral health clinics Provides for administrative review when applying for an additional certification by applicants to become certified community behavioral health clinics if such applicant is already certified by either the department of mental health or the office of addiction services and supports and is in good standing for five or more years.

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Bill History

2026-05-01 Assembly
REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH

Official Summary Text

Relates to joint certification of certified community behavioral health clinics
Provides for administrative review when applying for an additional certification by applicants to become certified community behavioral health clinics if such applicant is already certified by either the department of mental health or the office of addiction services and supports and is in good standing for five or more years.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          11215

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                       May 1, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Mental Health

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in  relation  to  joint  certif-
          ication of certified community behavioral health clinics

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 36.04 of the mental hygiene law,
     2  as added by section 1 of part HH of chapter 57 of the laws of  2023,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a)  The  commissioners  are  authorized  to jointly certify community
     5  behavioral health clinics, subject to  the  availability  of  state  and
     6  federal funding. PROVIDED HOWEVER, NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF LAW,
     7  RULE  OR  REGULATION  TO THE CONTRARY, AN APPLICANT ALREADY CERTIFIED BY
     8  EITHER THE DEPARTMENT OR THE OFFICE OF ADDICTION SERVICES  AND  SUPPORTS
     9  IN GOOD STANDING FOR FIVE OR MORE YEARS WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE CERTIFYING
    10  AGENCY  SHALL  BE  SUBJECT TO ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW WHEN APPLYING FOR AN
    11  ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATION BY THE DEPARTMENT OR SUCH OFFICE,  AS  APPLICA-
    12  BLE, PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION.
    13    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    14  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13897-01-5