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Int 0571-2014

Early intervention program.

IntroductionEnactedCommittee on Mental Health, Developmental Disability, Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Disability Servicesintroduced 2014-12-08Local Law 2015/013

Enacted as Local Law 2015/013.

Official record · Legistar

Agenda: 2014-12-08Passed: 2015-02-05Enacted: 2015-02-05

Summary

This bill would remove the requirement that the early intervention program be administered by the Division of Mental Hygiene, a division within the Department of Health of Mental Hygiene, and would allow the commissioner of the Department of Mental Health and Hygiene to place the program in the newly created Division of Family and Child Health.

Committee on Mental Health, Developmental Disability, Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Disability ServicesDepartment of Health and Mental Hygiene (issues of mental health, developmental disability and alcoholism services) and Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities.

How it compares

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15 passed · 17 died

This bill: 43 days in committee

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Sponsors (5)

Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2014-12-08 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2014-12-08 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2014-12-15 · Committee on Mental Health, Developmental Disability, Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Disability Services
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2014-12-15 · Committee on Mental Health, Developmental Disability, Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Disability Services
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2015-01-21 · Committee on Mental Health, Developmental Disability, Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Disability Services
ActionAmendment Proposed by Comm
2015-01-21 · Committee on Mental Health, Developmental Disability, Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Disability Services
ActionAmended by Committee
2015-01-21 · Committee on Mental Health, Developmental Disability, Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Disability Services
AdvancedApproved by Committee
2015-01-21 · Committee on Mental Health, Developmental Disability, Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Disability Services
AdvancedApproved by Council
2015-01-22 · City Council
ActionSent to Mayor by Council
2015-01-22 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Mayor
2015-02-05 · Mayor
AdvancedSigned Into Law by Mayor
2015-02-05 · Mayor
ActionRecved from Mayor by Council
2015-02-05 · City Council

Heard at (2)

City Council · 2015-01-22 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
City Council · 2014-12-08 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall

Attachments (12)

Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Paragraph 7 of subdivision b of section 556 of chapter 22 of the New York city charter, as added by a vote of the electors on November 6, 2001, is amended to read as follows: (7) administer [,within the division of mental hygiene,] the unit responsible for early intervention services pursuant to the public health law; and �2. This local law shall take effect immediately upon enactment. LS# 3514 KW 12/31/14