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legislation/us/states/ny/2023-2024/a-7395.md

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Provides for definitions of mental health and family and youth peer and requires the office of mental health establish peer service qualification programs"
+description: "Provides for definitions of mental health and family and youth peer advocates and requires the office of mental health to establish peer service qualification programs."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2023-2024"
+identifier: "A 7395"
+citation: "New York A 7395 (2023-2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Taylor Darling"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-05-19"
+last_action: "2024-08-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3ce1927-8d11-461f-a516-c84a93408369"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/A7395"
+source_hash: "ab3f86235ebe8a91bb5305683c64907c64d73eddbad9caf4662381f5b001c00c"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
+---
+
+# New York A 7395 (2023-2024) — Provides for definitions of mental health and family and youth peer and requires the office of mental health establish peer service qualification programs
+
+Provides for definitions of mental health and family and youth peer advocates and requires the office of mental health to establish peer service qualification programs.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **A7395** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=A7395&term=2023&Text=Y)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Assembly Vote — **147–0** (pass) · lower
+- Floor Vote — **61–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Taylor Darling — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-05-19** REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH `referral-committee`
+- **2023-05-24** REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-03** REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-06** REPORTED
+- **2024-02-08** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING CAL.297
+- **2024-02-13** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2024-02-13** DELIVERED TO SENATE
+- **2024-02-13** REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH `referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-04** SUBSTITUTED FOR S9787
+- **2024-06-04** 3RD READING CAL.1740
+- **2024-06-04** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2024-06-04** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2024-08-20** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-08-28** SIGNED CHAP.233 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f3ce1927-8d11-461f-a516-c84a93408369`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
+