Establishes the community chemical dependence services expansion program; provides funding for local governmental units for the provision of new and expanded chemical dependency services. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Provides that a sponsoring agency must make a presentation at a public hearing before a residential facility for the disabled may be placed in a municipality. / Sponsor: Fitzpatrick Committee:

Creates mental health incident review panels. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Sponsor: Ortiz (MS) Committee:

Provides legal assistance to youth ordered by the court into the custody of the office of children and family services and placed or committed to a state operated juvenile detention center. / Sponsor: Gibson Committee:

Requires the establishment of community housing waiting lists within the office of mental health service system; directs each provider of housing services in the office of mental health system to provide, on a monthly basis, the office of mental health with a list of each person referred to, admitted to, applying for, withdrawing an application for and denied admission to housing provided by such provider; requires the community-based agency performing assessments of persons with a documented mental illness to provide the office with the names of such who have been assessed and who meet the eligibility criteria for the array of funded and/or licensed housing programs; requires such office to publish such waiting lists on a monthly basis. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Establishes peer crisis diversion homes. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Provides legal assistance to youth ordered by the court into the custody of the office of children and family services and placed or committed to a state operated juvenile detention center. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Establishes the child psychiatry access project; provides that the office of mental hygiene shall establish regional child psychiatry access projects across the state to provide primary care providers with timely access to child psychiatry consultations they treat in order to assist such primary care providers in meeting the mental health needs of the children and adolescents and their families; establishes a gift for the child psychiatry access project on state personal income tax forms, the proceeds from which shall be deposited into a child psychiatry access fund for the funding of such projects. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Relates to the definition of autism. / Sponsor: KENNEDY Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Includes the executive officer of a local government's office for the aging in the composition of such government's local community services board. / Sponsor: VALESKY Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Relates to drug and alcohol testing of employees of the office for people with developmental disabilities facilities. / Sponsor: Rodriguez Committee:

Authorizes a certified psychologist or a certified nurse practitioner, in addition to other authorized individuals, to make a recommendation of the type of residence in which a patient is to live upon release into the community. / Sponsor: HOYLMAN Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Broadens the geriatric service demonstration program to include older adults with mental health disabilities and chemical dependence; renames the program to be the geriatric mental health and chemical dependence demonstration program; allows for grants to be awarded by the office to providers of care to older adults with chemical dependence. / Sponsor: Dinowitz Committee:

Requires the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services to develop educational materials for health care providers and qualified health professionals relating to screening and referrals for prescription drug abuse and misuse. / Sponsor: Cymbrowitz Committee:

Requires municipal approval of and a public hearing on the siting of community residential facilities for mentally disabled persons and removes the property tax exemption for such community residential facilities. / Sponsor: Raia Committee:

Relates to restraint of individuals in facilities under the jurisdiction of the office of mental health. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Provides for disclosure of sexual offender information related to a patient or client. / Sponsor: FLANAGAN Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Defines a bill of rights for persons with autism or autism spectrum disorders. / Sponsor: Gunther Committee:

Relates to the disposal of drugs, drug disposal sites and home pharmaceutical collection. / Sponsor: Cymbrowitz Committee: