A 1579: Directs the commissioner of the office of mental health to promulgate rules and regulations prohibiting any suicide prevention or mental health services hotline operated or sponsored by the state from being automated.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1579 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 10, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JACKSON, DE LOS SANTOS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to prohibiting certain suicide prevention and mental health services hotlines from being automated The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 7.09 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision (n) to read as follows: 3 (n) The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations prohibit- 4 ing any suicide prevention or mental health services hotline operated or 5 sponsored by the state from being automated. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 7 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or 8 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of 9 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed 10 on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03336-01-5