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S1366 • 2025

Relates to prohibiting certain suicide prevention and mental health services hotlines from being automated

Relates to prohibiting certain suicide prevention and mental health services hotlines from being automated

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Sponsor
José M. Serrano
Last action
2026-06-01
Official status
In Assembly Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Relates to prohibiting certain suicide prevention and mental health services hotlines from being automated

Relates to prohibiting certain suicide prevention and mental health services hotlines from being automated Directs the commissioner of the office of mental health to promulgate rules and regulations prohibiting any suicide prevention or mental health services hotline operated or sponsored by the state from being automated.

What This Bill Does

  • Relates to prohibiting certain suicide prevention and mental health services hotlines from being automated Directs the commissioner of the office of mental health to promulgate rules and regulations prohibiting any suicide prevention or mental health services hotline operated or sponsored by the state from being automated.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-06-01 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  2. 2026-06-01 Senate

    DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

  3. 2026-06-01 Assembly

    REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH

  4. 2026-05-28 Senate

    COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

  5. 2026-05-28 Senate

    ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1344

  6. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    DIED IN ASSEMBLY

  7. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    RETURNED TO SENATE

  8. 2026-01-07 Senate

    REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH

  9. 2025-06-04 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  10. 2025-06-04 Senate

    DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

  11. 2025-06-04 Assembly

    REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH

  12. 2025-05-29 Senate

    COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

  13. 2025-05-29 Senate

    ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1470

  14. 2025-05-21 Senate

    REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

  15. 2025-01-09 Senate

    REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH

Official Summary Text

Relates to prohibiting certain suicide prevention and mental health services hotlines from being automated
Directs the commissioner of the office of mental health to promulgate rules and regulations prohibiting any suicide prevention or mental health services hotline operated or sponsored by the state from being automated.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          1366

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                     January 9, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. SERRANO, WEBB -- 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 prohibiting
          certain suicide prevention and mental health  services  hotlines  from
          being automated

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

     1    Section 1. Section 7.09 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision (n) to read as follows:
     3    (N) THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS  PROHIBIT-
     4  ING ANY SUICIDE PREVENTION OR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES HOTLINE OPERATED OR
     5  SPONSORED BY THE STATE FROM BEING AUTOMATED.
     6    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
     7  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
     8  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
     9  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
    10  on or before such effective date.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03336-01-5