File #: Int 0946-2023    Version: * Name: Creating a mental health coordinator to inform city employees about mental health support and services.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction
On agenda: 3/2/2023
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to creating a mental health coordinator to inform city employees about mental health support and services
Sponsors: Crystal Hudson, Linda Lee, Kalman Yeger , Farah N. Louis, Kristin Richardson Jordan, Shaun Abreu, Amanda Farías, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Lynn C. Schulman, Robert F. Holden, Kevin C. Riley, Sandra Ung, Christopher Marte, Mercedes Narcisse, Eric Dinowitz, Chi A. Ossé, Charles Barron, Alexa Avilés, Sandy Nurse, Julie Won, Tiffany Cabán, Shekar Krishnan, Rita C. Joseph, Kamillah Hanks, Julie Menin, Francisco P. Moya, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Justin L. Brannan, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, James F. Gennaro, Nantasha M. Williams, Gale A. Brewer, Marjorie Velázquez, Shahana K. Hanif, Keith Powers , Erik D. Bottcher, Oswald Feliz, Carlina Rivera , Rafael Salamanca, Jr., Vickie Paladino, Ari Kagan
Council Member Sponsors: 42
Summary: This bill would require the creation of a mental health coordinator in each city agency to assist and perform outreach to city employees with mental health need.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 946, 2. Int. No. 946, 3. March 2, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-2-23, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - March 2, 2023, 6. Committee Report 9/15/23, 7. Hearing Testimony 9/15/23, 8. Hearing Transcript 9/15/23

Int. No. 946

 

By Council Members Hudson, Lee, Yeger, Louis, Richardson Jordan, Abreu, Farías, De La Rosa, Schulman, Holden, Riley, Ung, Marte, Narcisse, Dinowitz, Ossé, Barron, Avilés, Nurse, Won, Cabán, Krishnan, Joseph, Hanks, Menin, Moya, Gutiérrez, Brannan, Sanchez, Brooks-Powers, Gennaro, Williams, Brewer, Velázquez, Hanif, Powers, Bottcher, Feliz, Rivera, Salamanca, Paladino and Kagan

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to creating a mental health coordinator to inform city employees about mental health support and services

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 12 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 12-141 to read as follows:

                     § 12-141 Mental health coordinator. a. The head of each agency, in consultation with the mayor’s office for people with disabilities, shall designate an employee as such agency’s mental health coordinator.

                     b. Such mental health coordinator shall assist each agency in coordinating such agency’s efforts to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act and other federal, state, and local laws and regulations concerning accessibility and support for city employees with mental health needs.

                     c. Such mental health coordinator shall perform outreach to employees of the city about mental health services and support services available to such employees, including but not limited to the employee assistance program.

                     § 2. This local law shall take effect in 120 days.

 

 

 

 

Session 12

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LS #11101

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Session 11

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LS #691

Int. #0064-2018