The proposed budgets from the state Senate and Assembly include $2 million to try out a crisis response program created after the death in Rochester of Daniel Prude.
If approved, only mental health professionals would respond to mental health crises when the person involved is not posing a threat to others.
Supporters of the so-called Daniel's Law say the experimental program will establish the best practices that can be a model for a statewide program.
Prude died in 2020,a week after he stopped breathing while being physically restrained by police.