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A 9549Relates to involuntary emergency admission of persons alleged to be mentally ill

Congress · introduced 2026-01-14

Enacts "Jesse's law" to provide that a person subject to involuntary emergency admission for immediate observation, care, and treatment of mental illness shall have the right to select the hospital they are admitted to.

Latest action: 2026-01-14 IN_ASSEMBLY_COMM

Sponsors

Action timeline

  1. · assembly REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH

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Inbound (3)

datefromtypeamountrolesource
2026-01-14Phil Steckcosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2026-01-14Monique Chandler-Watermancosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2026-01-14Jo Anne Simonsponsor_of_billsponsorsponsorship

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1Jo Anne Simon (, state_lower NY-52)sponsor05
2Monique Chandler-Waterman (, state_lower NY-58)cosponsor01
3Phil Steck (, state_lower NY-110)cosponsor01

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

Activity

Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.

  1. 2026-01-14 · sponsored by Jo Anne Simon (sponsor) · sponsorship
  2. 2026-01-14 · cosponsored by Monique Chandler-Waterman (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  3. 2026-01-14 · cosponsored by Phil Steck (cosponsor) · sponsorship

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