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Int 1162-2025

Requiring the commissioner of health and mental hygiene to report annually on suicides that occur in the city.

IntroductionFiledCommittee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addictionintroduced 2025-01-08

Filed — closed without being enacted.

Official record · Legistar

Agenda: 2025-01-08Passed: 2025-12-31

Summary

The proposed bill requires the Commissioner of Health and Mental Hygiene to publish an annual report on suicides in New York City, including totals and breakdowns by age, occupation, race, ethnicity, borough of residence, sex, and method of suicide. The Commissioner may include additional categories as appropriate, and all reporting must comply with privacy and law-enforcement requirements.

Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and AddictionDepartment of Health and Mental Hygiene (issues of mental health, developmental disability and addiction services) and Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities.

How it compares

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24 passed · 26 died

This bill: 357 days in committee

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Sponsors (6)

Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2025-01-08 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2025-01-08 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2025-09-26 · Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2025-09-26 · Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2025-12-31 · City Council

Heard at (3)

Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction · 2025-09-26 · 10:00 AM · 250 Broadway - 8th Floor - Hearing Room 3
Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction · 2025-09-17 · 1:00 PM · 250 Broadway - Hearing Room, 16th Floor
City Council · 2025-01-08 · 12:00 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall

Attachments (12)

Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 17-199.31 to read as follows: � 17-199.31 Report on suicides. a. Report. No later than 6 months after the effective date of the local law that added this section, and annually thereafter, the commissioner, in consultation with other relevant agencies as appropriate, shall submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council, and post on the department's website, a report on suicides that occurred in the city in the calendar year for which the most recent data is available. Such report shall set forth the number of deaths by suicide in total and disaggregated by the following information about each decedent: 1. Age group; 2. Occupational category; 3. Race and ethnicity; 4. Borough of residence; 5. Sex; 6. Method of suicide; and 7. Any other subset the commissioner deems appropriate. b. Information reported. No information that is required to be reported pursuant to this section shall be reported in a manner that would violate any applicable provision of federal, state, local law, or rules or regulations relating to the privacy of any individual or any decedent, or that would interfere with law enforcement investigations or otherwise conflict with the interests of any law enforcement agency. � 2. This local law takes effect immediately. PS/SOS LS #5532/17223 11/25/25 4:30pm 2 2