Provides a mental hygiene legal service to patients or residents of residential healthcare facilities who have been admitted directly from a facility and who have a chronic mental illness and are receiving services related to such illness. / Sponsor: MCDONALD Committee:

Creates mental illness and chemical dependence initiative designed to eliminate stigma and misinformation about mental illness and chemical dependence among military service members. / Sponsor: MCDONALD Committee:

Requires the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services, in consultation with the education department, to establish a course of instruction on adolescent problem gambling which may be provided in grades 4 through 12; requires the commissioner to provide such curriculum be posted on the department of education internet website. / Sponsor: KLEIN Committee:

Includes instruction in recognizing multiple dimensions of health by including mental health and the relation of physical and mental health within health education in schools. / Sponsor: MCDONALD Committee: