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New York · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

A 8434: Establishes the rural suicide prevention council

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

A 8434 is a bill introduced in the New York House on May 16, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Establishes the rural suicide prevention council. Primary sponsor: Anna Kelles (Democratic/Working Families). It lists 5 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (June 4, 2026): SUBSTITUTED BY S3610A.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Establishes the rural suicide prevention council to identify barriers to mental health and substance use treatment and prevention services and other policies, practices, resources, services, and potential legislation that aim to reduce death by suicide and suicide attempts and acknowledge the demographic and cultural differences in rural communities; makes related provisions.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 5 · Democratic/Working Families 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Anna KellesPrimary sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesHouse125
Michael CashmanCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse115
Paula KayCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse100
Angelo SantabarbaraCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse111
Jo Anne SimonCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse52
Carrie WoernerCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse113

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. SUBSTITUTED BY S3610A
  2. ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.494
  3. RULES REPORT CAL.494
  4. REPORTED
  5. REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES
  6. REPORTED REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS
  7. REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH
  8. REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source