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NY S 6116

in committee

Relates to the protection of mental health practitioners

New York · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Quick answers

Did NY S 6116 pass?

Not yet. NY S 6116 is in committee as of 2026-01-07 and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2026-01-07): REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH

What is NY S 6116 about?

Imposes a duty to protect upon mental health practitioners; requires reasonable efforts to modify aspects of treatment in order to reduce or eliminate the risk of harm, initiating procedures for hospitalization, notifying the intended victim or victims, or notifying law enforcement officials when a person directly communicates a threat of serious, imminent harm to self or against a readily identifiable person or persons, and the threat includes both a serious intent to act and the ability to carry out the threat; does not require a mental health practitioner to take any action which, in the exercise of reasonable professional judgment, would endanger such mental health practitioner or increase the danger to a potential victim or victims.

Who sponsors NY S 6116?

Kevin S. Parker is the primary sponsor of NY S 6116, joined by 1 cosponsor.

Description

Imposes a duty to protect upon mental health practitioners; requires reasonable efforts to modify aspects of treatment in order to reduce or eliminate the risk of harm, initiating procedures for hospitalization, notifying the intended victim or victims, or notifying law enforcement officials when a person directly communicates a threat of serious, imminent harm to self or against a readily identifiable person or persons, and the threat includes both a serious intent to act and the ability to carry out the threat; does not require a mental health practitioner to take any action which, in the exercise of reasonable professional judgment, would endanger such mental health practitioner or increase the danger to a potential victim or victims.

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
  • Thomas F. O'Maracosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-03-05

    REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH

    referral-committee

  2. 2026-01-07

    REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH

    referral-committee

Versions

Documents

Votes

Not provided by source.

Related bills

  • Prior session: S 775not in this corpus
  • Prior session: S 7424not in this corpus
  • Prior session: S 2372not in this corpus
  • Prior session: S 3475not in this corpus
  • Prior session: S 7969not in this corpus
  • Companion bill: A 994

Official source

https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/bills/2025-2026/S6116?summary=&detail=

Attribution

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