Bill Commons

NY S 6054

in committee

Relates to establishing the New York state council on mental health emergency and crisis response

New York · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

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Did NY S 6054 pass?

Not yet. NY S 6054 is in committee and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2026-01-07): REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH

What is NY S 6054 about?

Relates to establishing the New York state council on mental health emergency and crisis response to make recommendations on topics including but not limited to: identifying best practices for response to mental health crises; initiatives to increase training opportunities and participation of mental health professionals, and other qualified individuals as members of mobile crisis outreach teams; identify training needs and methods to improve diversion from hospitalization after response from a mobile crisis outreach team; identify the need for establishing mobile crisis outreach teams in each region of the state and accessing alternatives to hospitalization; public education and outreach on the benefit of mobile crisis outreach teams and how to access their services; and any other recommendation deemed appropriate by the council.

Who sponsors NY S 6054?

Kevin S. Parker is the primary sponsor of NY S 6054, joined by 1 cosponsor.

Description

Relates to establishing the New York state council on mental health emergency and crisis response to make recommendations on topics including but not limited to: identifying best practices for response to mental health crises; initiatives to increase training opportunities and participation of mental health professionals, and other qualified individuals as members of mobile crisis outreach teams; identify training needs and methods to improve diversion from hospitalization after response from a mobile crisis outreach team; identify the need for establishing mobile crisis outreach teams in each region of the state and accessing alternatives to hospitalization; public education and outreach on the benefit of mobile crisis outreach teams and how to access their services; and any other recommendation deemed appropriate by the council.

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

  • Kevin S. Parkerprimary
  • John Liucosponsor

Committees

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Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2026-01-07

    REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH

    referral-committee

  2. 2025-03-05

    REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH

    referral-committee

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Votes

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Related bills

  • Prior session: S 8786not in this corpus
  • Prior session: S 2982not in this corpus
  • Prior session: S 7269not in this corpus

Official source

https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/bills/2025-2026/S6054?summary=&detail=

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