File #: T2026-0155    Version: * Name: Requiring the commissioner of health and mental hygiene to report annually on suicides that occur in the city.
Type: Introduction Status: Introduced
Committee: Committee on Mental Health and Addiction
On agenda: 1/29/2026
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the commissioner of health and mental hygiene to report annually on suicides that occur in the city
Sponsors: Farah N. Louis, Linda Lee
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Summary: The proposed bill requires the Commissioner of Health and Mental Hygiene to publish an annual report on suicides in New York City, including totals and breakdowns by age, occupation, race, ethnicity, borough of residence, sex, and method of suicide. The Commissioner may include additional categories as appropriate, and all reporting must comply with privacy and law-enforcement requirements.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No., 2. Int. No.

Int. No.

 

By Council Members Louis and Lee

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the commissioner of health and mental hygiene to report annually on suicides that occur in the city

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 17-199.31 to read as follows:

§ 17-199.31 Report on suicides. a. Report. No later than 6 months after the effective date of the local law that added this section, and annually thereafter, the commissioner, in consultation with other relevant agencies as appropriate, shall submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council, and post on the department’s website, a report on suicides that occurred in the city in the calendar year for which the most recent data is available. Such report shall set forth the number of deaths by suicide in total and disaggregated by the following information about each decedent:

1. Age group;

2. Occupational category;

3. Race and ethnicity;

4. Borough of residence;

5. Sex;

6. Method of suicide; and

7. Any other subset the commissioner deems appropriate.

b. Information reported. No information that is required to be reported pursuant to this section shall be reported in a manner that would violate any applicable provision of federal, state, local law, or rules or regulations relating to the privacy of any individual or any decedent, or that would interfere with law enforcement investigations or otherwise conflict with the interests of any law enforcement agency.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

PS/SOS

LS #5532/17223

Int. #1162-2025

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