NYC Council Introduction 722

intro.nyc/0722-2026 2026-2029 Legislative Session Mayor's Desk for Signature
Reporting and publication of mental health emergency response data.
Sponsored by Lynn C. Schulman
Introduced: February 24, 2026

The bill would require, starting June 1, 2027, that the New York City Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health submit twice a year to the Mayor and Speaker of the City Council—and post publicly online—a report on mental health emergency calls from the prior six months. Each report would include call volume; how many calls were eligible for and received a B-HEARD response versus police or EMS; response times; outcomes, such as treatment, hospitalization, arrest, or involuntary removal; use of force incidents; demographic information; and call locations by precinct and borough. The bill would also require the New York City Fire Department to add new columns to its public 911 call data on the Open Data Portal indicating whether B-HEARD was dispatched and whether it responded, along with a randomly generated ID to enable data linking while protecting privacy.

Approved by Committee April 15, 2026

Committee on Mental Health and Substance Use Votes 6:0:0
Tiffany L. Cabán (Affirmative)
Shirley Aldebol (Affirmative)
Joann Ariola (Affirmative)
Simcha Felder (Affirmative)
Ty Hankerson (Affirmative)
Linda Lee (Affirmative)
Althea V. Stevens (Absent)

Approved by Council April 16, 2026

Votes 49:0:0
Julie Menin (Affirmative)
Shaun Abreu (Affirmative)
Shirley Aldebol (Affirmative)
Joann Ariola (Affirmative)
Alexa Avilés (Affirmative)
Chris Banks (Affirmative)
Gale A. Brewer (Affirmative)
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers (Affirmative)
Tiffany L. Cabán (Affirmative)
David M. Carr (Affirmative)
Carmen N. De La Rosa (Affirmative)
Eric Dinowitz (Affirmative)
Elsie Encarnación (Affirmative)
Harvey D. Epstein (Affirmative)
Amanda C. Farías (Affirmative)
Simcha Felder (Affirmative)
Oswald J. Feliz (Affirmative)
James F. Gennaro (Affirmative)
Jennifer Gutiérrez (Affirmative)
Shahana K. Hanif (Affirmative)
Ty Hankerson (Affirmative)
Kamillah Hanks (Affirmative)
Crystal Hudson (Affirmative)
Rita C. Joseph (Affirmative)
Shekar Krishnan (Affirmative)
Linda Lee (Affirmative)
Farah N. Louis (Affirmative)
Virginia Maloney (Affirmative)
Christopher Marte (Affirmative)
Darlene Mealy (Affirmative)
Frank Morano (Affirmative)
Mercedes Narcisse (Affirmative)
Sandy Nurse (Affirmative)
Chi A. Ossé (Absent)
Vickie Paladino (Affirmative)
Lincoln Restler (Affirmative)
Kevin C. Riley (Affirmative)
Yusef Salaam (Affirmative)
Pierina Ana Sanchez (Affirmative)
Justin E. Sanchez (Affirmative)
Kayla Santosuosso (Affirmative)
Lynn C. Schulman (Affirmative)
Althea V. Stevens (Affirmative)
Shanel Thomas-Henry (Affirmative)
Sandra Ung (Affirmative)
Inna Vernikov (Affirmative)
Nantasha M. Williams (Affirmative)
Julie Won (Affirmative)
Phil Wong (Affirmative)
Susan Zhuang (Affirmative)