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New York · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

A 8600: Relates to children's behavioral health outpatient rates

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 8600 is a bill introduced in the New York House on May 22, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Relates to children's behavioral health outpatient rates. Primary sponsor: Jo Anne Simon (Democratic). It lists 7 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (January 7, 2026): REFERRED TO HEALTH.

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.

Increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for certain behavioral health services provided to individuals under the age of twenty-one; directs that funds in the healthcare stability fund can be used for the funding of children's behavioral health outpatient rate increases.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 6 · Democratic/Working Families 1 · Republican/Conservative/Independence 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Jo Anne SimonPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse52
Keith BrownCo-sponsorRepublican/Conservative/IndependenceHouse12
Marianne ButtenschonCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse119
Andrew HevesiCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse28
Dana LevenbergCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesHouse95
Kwani O'PharrowCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse11
Angelo SantabarbaraCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse111
Kalman YegerCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse41

“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. REFERRED TO HEALTH
  2. REFERRED TO HEALTH

Sources

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