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- Print number 3230a
- Amend and recommit to alcoholism and drug abuse
- Referred to alcoholism and drug abuse
- Referred to alcoholism and drug abuse
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Establishes the community chemical dependence services expansion program
In Assembly Committee · Alcoholism And Drug Abuse · Sponsor Steven Cymbrowitz
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Title of bill
An act to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to establishing the community chemical dependence services expansion program and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
Purpose
The purpose of this bill is to reduce the over-utilization of New York City's medically managed detoxification services by increasing the availability of chemical dependency services available at local, community-based agencies.
Summary of provisions
Section one of this bill amends the Mental Hygiene Law to add a new section 22.13 to direct the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services ("OASAS") to use funds attributable to reductions in expenditures for medically managed chemical dependence detoxification to provide grants to fund the Community Chemical Dependence Services Expansion Program. Grants will be distributed directly from OASAS to non-profit entities, and to local governmental units in proportion to the unmet need for chemical dependency services.
Section two of this bill provides that this act shall take effect immediately and shall expire March 31, 2020.
Justification
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and OASAS have undertaken efforts to reduce the over-utilization of New York City's medically managed detoxification services by increasing the availability of, and incentives for patients to utilize less restrictive and less expensive alternatives. This substitution will result in more appropriate care as well as very significant savings for the State.
The proposed legislation will ensure that savings achieved by the substitution of less restrictive alternatives for medically managed inpatient detoxification will be reinvested in New York State's chemical dependency services system, and that community-based agencies receive the resources necessary to provide treatment and link clients to ongoing care.
The funds saved and reinvested will be necessary to fill any identified gaps, support initiatives that bring evidence-based treatment into practice in the community-based service sector, and improve the outcomes for people living with chemical dependency. initiatives that should benefit from such reinvestment include: case management, shelter and ambulatory-based detoxification centers, buprenotphine and methadone treatment capacity expansion, and services for patients with co-occurring psychiatric and addictive disorders.
Legislative history
2015: S.3230 - Referred to Mental Health & Developmental Disabilities 2014: S.2558-A - Referred to Mental Health & Developmental Disabilities 2013: S.2558 - Referred to Mental Health & Developmental Disabilities 2012: S.2214-A - Amended and Recommitted to Alcoholism and Drug Abuse 2010: S.2192 -Referred to Mental Health & Developmental Disabilities 2008: S.7514- Referred to Mental Health & Developmental Disabilities
Fiscal implications
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Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire March 31, 2020.
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