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NY S 5477

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Relates to pretrial mental health and substance abuse evaluations and treatment for certain defendants and establishes the pretrial mental health and substance abuse services bail fund

New York · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Quick answers

Did NY S 5477 pass?

Not yet. NY S 5477 is in committee as of 2026-01-07 and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2026-01-07): REFERRED TO CODES

What is NY S 5477 about?

Relates to pretrial mental health and substance abuse evaluations and treatment for certain defendants; establishes the pretrial mental health and substance abuse services bail fund.

Who sponsors NY S 5477?

Leroy Comrie is the primary sponsor of NY S 5477, joined by 4 cosponsors.

Description

Relates to pretrial mental health and substance abuse evaluations and treatment for certain defendants; establishes the pretrial mental health and substance abuse services bail fund.

Introduced
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Latest action
2026-01-07 — REFERRED TO CODES
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Sponsors

  • Leroy Comrieprimary
  • Simcha Feldercosponsor
  • Andrew Gounardescosponsor
  • Pete Harckhamcosponsor
  • James Skoufiscosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-21

    REFERRED TO CODES

    referral-committee

  2. 2026-01-07

    REFERRED TO CODES

    referral-committee

Versions

Documents

Votes

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Related bills

  • Prior session: S 7242not in this corpus
  • Prior session: S 198not in this corpus
  • Prior session: S 5233not in this corpus

Official source

https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/bills/2025-2026/S5477?summary=&detail=

Attribution

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