File #: Int 1162-2025    Version: * Name: Requiring the commissioner of health and mental hygiene to report annually on suicides that occur in the city.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction
On agenda: 1/8/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the commissioner of health and mental hygiene to report annually on suicides that occur in the city
Sponsors: Farah N. Louis, Linda Lee, Lynn C. Schulman, Mercedes Narcisse
Council Member Sponsors: 4
Summary: This bill would require the Commissioner of Health and Mental Hygiene to report annually on the number of suicides, in total and subdivided into certain subsets, including the decedent’s age group, occupational category, race, ethnicity, borough of residence, and sex.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1162, 2. Int. No. 1162, 3. January 8, 2025 - Charter Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Charter Meeting 1-8-24

Int. No. 1162

 

By Council Members Louis, Lee, Schulman and Narcisse

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the commissioner of health and mental hygiene to report annually on suicides that occur in the city

 

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 17-199.27 to read as follows:

§ 17-199.27 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 preceding calendar year. Such report shall set forth the number of deaths by suicide in total and subdivided by the following:

1. Decedent’s age group;

2. Decedent’s occupational category;

3. Decedent’s race;

4. Decedent’s ethnicity

5. Decedent’s borough of residence;

6. Decedent’s sex; 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, or local law 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.

 

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LS #5532/17223

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