NY S 6244

passed one chamber

Enacts the "Lieutenant Joseph Banish mental health act"

New York · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Description

Enacts the "Lieutenant Joseph Banish mental health act" which establishes a law enforcement peer support program to provide confidentiality for communications arising out of law enforcement peer support counseling; defines terms; provides exceptions for when a peer support communication may be disclosed.

Introduced: —
Status date: —
Latest action: 2025-06-10 — SUBSTITUTED BY A6721A
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Committees

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Action timeline

2025-03-07
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
referral-committee
2025-03-25
1ST REPORT CAL.597
2025-03-26
2ND REPORT CAL.
2025-03-27
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2025-04-29
PASSED SENATE
passage
2025-04-29
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2025-04-29
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
referral-committee
2025-06-04
RECALLED FROM ASSEMBLY
2025-06-04
RETURNED TO SENATE
2025-06-04
VOTE RECONSIDERED - RESTORED TO THIRD READING
2025-06-04
AMENDED ON THIRD READING 6244A
amendment-passage
2025-06-10
SUBSTITUTED BY A6721A

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Votes

Judiciary Vote
2025-03-25 · pass · 18-0
Member-level votes (19)
- Jamaal Bailey: yes
- Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick: yes
- Jeremy Cooney: yes
- Andrew Gounardes: yes
- Brad Hoylman-Sigal: yes
- Andrew J. Lanza: yes
- John Liu: yes
- Jack M. Martins: yes
- Shelley Mayer: yes
- Zellnor Myrie: yes
- Thomas F. O'Mara: yes
- Anthony H. Palumbo: yes
- Kevin S. Parker: yes
- Jessica Ramos: yes
- Steve Rhoads: yes
- Sean Ryan: yes
- James Skoufis: yes
- Toby Ann Stavisky: yes
- Luis R. Sepúlveda: excused
Floor Vote
2025-04-29 · pass · 61-0
Member-level votes (62)
- Joseph P. Addabbo Jr.: yes
- Jake Ashby: yes
- Jamaal Bailey: yes
- April Baskin: yes
- George Borrello: yes
- Jabari Brisport: yes
- Samra Brouk: yes
- Siela Bynoe: yes
- Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick: yes
- Stephen T. Chan: yes
- Cordell Cleare: yes
- Leroy Comrie: yes
- Jeremy Cooney: yes
- Patricia Fahy: yes
- Nathalia Fernandez: yes
- Patrick M. Gallivan: yes
- Michael Gianaris: yes
- Kristen Gonzalez: yes
- Andrew Gounardes: yes
- Joseph A. Griffo: yes
- Pete Harckham: yes
- Pamela Helming: yes
- Michelle Hinchey: yes
- Brad Hoylman-Sigal: yes
- Robert Jackson: yes
- Brian Kavanagh: yes
- Liz Krueger: yes
- Andrew J. Lanza: yes
- John Liu: yes
- Monica Martinez: yes
- Jack M. Martins: yes
- Mario Mattera: yes
- Rachel May: yes
- Shelley Mayer: yes
- Dean Murray: yes
- Zellnor Myrie: yes
- Thomas F. O'Mara: yes
- Peter Oberacker: yes
- Robert Ortt: yes
- Anthony H. Palumbo: yes
- Kevin S. Parker: yes
- Roxanne J. Persaud: yes
- Jessica Ramos: yes
- Steve Rhoads: yes
- Gustavo Rivera: yes
- Robert Rolison: yes
- Christopher Ryan: yes
- Sean Ryan: yes
- Julia Salazar: yes
- Jessica Scarcella-Spanton: yes
- Luis R. Sepúlveda: yes
- José M. Serrano: yes
- James Skoufis: yes
- Toby Ann Stavisky: yes
- Dan Stec: yes
- Andrea Stewart-Cousins: yes
- James Tedisco: yes
- Mark Walczyk: yes
- Lea Webb: yes
- William Weber: yes
- Alexis Weik: yes
- James Sanders Jr.: excused

Related bills

Prior session: S 6709not in this corpus
Companion bill: A 6721

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