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T2026-1168
| * | | | | Oversight - From Crisis to Care: How New York City Connects New Yorkers to Mental Health Services. | Oversight | | Hearing Held by Committee | |
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T2026-1168
| * | | | | Oversight - From Crisis to Care: How New York City Connects New Yorkers to Mental Health Services. | Oversight | | Filed, by Committee | |
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Int 0722-2026
| * | Lynn C. Schulman | | | Reporting and publication of mental health emergency response data. | Introduction | The bill would require, starting June 1, 2027, that the New York City Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health submit twice a year to the Mayor and Speaker of the City Council—and post publicly online—a report on mental health emergency calls from the prior six months. Each report would include call volume; how many calls were eligible for and received a B-HEARD response versus police or EMS; response times; outcomes, such as treatment, hospitalization, arrest, or involuntary removal; use of force incidents; demographic information; and call locations by precinct and borough. The bill would also require the New York City Fire Department to add new columns to its public 911 call data on the Open Data Portal indicating whether B-HEARD was dispatched and whether it responded, along with a randomly generated ID to enable data linking while protecting privacy. | Hearing Held by Committee | |
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Int 0722-2026
| * | Lynn C. Schulman | | | Reporting and publication of mental health emergency response data. | Introduction | The bill would require, starting June 1, 2027, that the New York City Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health submit twice a year to the Mayor and Speaker of the City Council—and post publicly online—a report on mental health emergency calls from the prior six months. Each report would include call volume; how many calls were eligible for and received a B-HEARD response versus police or EMS; response times; outcomes, such as treatment, hospitalization, arrest, or involuntary removal; use of force incidents; demographic information; and call locations by precinct and borough. The bill would also require the New York City Fire Department to add new columns to its public 911 call data on the Open Data Portal indicating whether B-HEARD was dispatched and whether it responded, along with a randomly generated ID to enable data linking while protecting privacy. | Laid Over by Committee | |
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Int 0741-2026
| * | Linda Lee | | Preconsidered | Establishment of a task force on 988 and a public education campaign on mental health awareness. | Introduction | This bill would create a task force to study the current 988 system and make recommendations for its improvement. The task force would be required to submit a report to the mayor and the speaker of the council with their recommendations for improvements to 988, including the training that call-takers receive, the script used when answering 988 calls and messages, mobile crisis team protocols, and developing metrics to track the success of 988 in providing mental health care. The bill would also require DOHMH to create a public education campaign on mental illness and 988. In addition to providing information on the resources available through 988, the campaign would provide information to help people recognize symptoms of mental illness, assess risk of harm in a given situation, and accurately explain a mental health situation to a 988 operator. The bill would also require DOHMH to provide information on the full range of services available through 988, including mobile crisis teams, intensive treatment programs, assertive community treatment, clubhouses, and community-based alternatives to hospitalization, with instructions on how to access these resources. | Hearing Held by Committee | |
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Int 0741-2026
| * | Linda Lee | | | Establishment of a task force on 988 and a public education campaign on mental health awareness. | Introduction | This bill would create a task force to study the current 988 system and make recommendations for its improvement. The task force would be required to submit a report to the mayor and the speaker of the council with their recommendations for improvements to 988, including the training that call-takers receive, the script used when answering 988 calls and messages, mobile crisis team protocols, and developing metrics to track the success of 988 in providing mental health care. The bill would also require DOHMH to create a public education campaign on mental illness and 988. In addition to providing information on the resources available through 988, the campaign would provide information to help people recognize symptoms of mental illness, assess risk of harm in a given situation, and accurately explain a mental health situation to a 988 operator. The bill would also require DOHMH to provide information on the full range of services available through 988, including mobile crisis teams, intensive treatment programs, assertive community treatment, clubhouses, and community-based alternatives to hospitalization, with instructions on how to access these resources. | Laid Over by Committee | |
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