| NY | S04907 | Intro
25% | Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities to create a staffing plan for workforce emergencies when experiencing staffing shortages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
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| NY | S04908 | Intro
25% | Relates to the creation of an innovative housing initiative for persons with a developmental disability who wish and are able to safely live independently; directs the division of housing and community renewal to establish guidelines for the dissemin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
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| NY | S04866 | Intro
25% | Relates to the reimbursement of local services provided to persons with a disability; provides for retroactive reimbursement if local services were furnished prior to approval.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
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| NY | S04835 | Intro
25% | Establishes a curriculum and task force to provide housing navigation services for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
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| NY | S04870 | Intro
25% | Authorizes school districts that provide transition services to allow the delivery of such transition services, including integrated employment, during school hours.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
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| NY | S04878 | Intro
25% | Relates to reimbursement for residential habilitation services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
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| NY | S04845 | Intro
25% | Extends for two years the requirement for OPWDD to give a 90-day notice to the Senate, Assembly, and labor organizations of any closures or transfer of a state operated individualized residential alternative.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
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| NY | S04871 | Intro
25% | Directs the independent developmental disability ombudsperson program to establish a service delivery structure based in New York state that includes a toll-free telephone hotline, an interactive website, and availability of in-person, telephone and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
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| NY | S04841 | Intro
25% | Establishes the "blue-ribbon commission on the future of New York state's service delivery system for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities act" to conduct a study and prepare a report to examine, evaluate and make recommendati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
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| NY | S04848 | Intro
25% | Extends provisions of law relating to the care demonstration program from March 31, 2026 until March 31, 2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
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| NY | S04873 | Intro
25% | Requires the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities to work with an independent firm to allow such firm to conduct a study on the OPWDD eligibility criteria and determinations following diagnostic evaluations by a licen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
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| NY | S04868 | Intro
25% | Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities to develop and maintain a community residence opportunities waitlist which includes the names and contact information of all individuals seeking placement in a community residence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
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| NY | S04838 | Intro
25% | Establishes a pilot program to create an assistance hotline for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and complex behavioral needs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
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| NY | S04834 | Intro
25% | Establishes a direct support professional worker registry of persons who have successfully completed a direct support professional worker education or training program approved by the commissioner or the accrediting body of other states or federal au...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
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| NY | S04837 | Intro
25% | Establishes a direct support wage enhancement to employees that provide direct care support or any other form of treatment, to individuals with developmental disabilities and whose income is less than $125,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
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| NY | S04723 | Intro
25% | Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities to produce and publish a report to assess the staffing and other issues causing the continued displacement of individuals with developmental disabilities from various state-operated insti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| NY | S04775 | Intro
25% | Safeguards cash accounts for people with developmental disabilities in a facility under the control of the commissioner of mental health, the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities and the commissioner of alcoholism and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| NY | S04716 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the withholding of state funding for service providers for people with developmental disabilities due to the receipt of certain COVID-19 federal funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| NY | S04511 | Intro
25% | Establishes the task force to promote the employment by state agencies of people with disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
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| NY | S04344 | Intro
25% | Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities to submit an updated waitlist and placement report to the senate and assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
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| NY | S04114 | Intro
25% | Increases the frequency that visitation or inspections of facilities operated or licensed by the office for people with developmental disabilities must be made each year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
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| NY | S04042 | Intro
25% | Provides for adult changing tables to be placed within an enclosed restroom facility or other similar private facility that is for use by persons with disabilities who need help with diapering at commercial places of public amusement and state-owned ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
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| NY | S03558 | Intro
25% | Provides for due process procedures for persons who currently are placed in New York state education department approved out-of-state residential schools pursuant to the education law and the federal individuals with disabilities education act who ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
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| NY | S03571 | Intro
25% | Names an office for people with developmental disabilities facility located in the borough of Manhattan the "Willie Mae 'Goody' Goodman Community Facility".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
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| NY | S02716 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the justice center to create a central registry for employees for all current and prospective agencies, sponsoring agencies or other providers of services that are certified, authorized, approved or funded through contract by the office fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
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| NY | S01431 | Intro
25% | Grants a waiver in the amount of $52,000 to Adirondack Helping Hands for services rendered during the 2016--2017 school year; provides such waiver shall be allocated to costs associated with special class in an integrated setting spending for the 201...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-09
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| NY | S01222 | Intro
25% | Directs the commissioner of health to do a comprehensive assessment of the existing methodology used to determine payment for early intervention screenings, evaluations, services and service coordination; directs recommendations on reimbursement meth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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| NY | S01112 | Intro
25% | Requires funding for special education services and programs for preschool children with disabilities to cover joint classroom instruction for such children with disabilities and other children for the same number of hours each day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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| NY | S00382 | Intro
25% | Adds fetal alcohol spectrum disorders to the definition of developmental disability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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| NY | S00145 | Intro
25% | Amends Kendra's law, in relation to making the provisions thereof permanent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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| NY | S00937 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the use of aversive conditioning which includes any procedure which causes obvious signs of physical pain, including but not limited to hitting, pinching and electric shock; prohibits the use of any procedure or punishment which denies a vu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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| NY | S00992 | Intro
25% | Relates to care and protection of children; adds to the definition of children at risk infants who test positive for a controlled substance not prescribed by a physician, in their bloodstream or urine, are born dependent on such drugs or who demonstr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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| NY | S00637 | Intro
25% | Relates to notice of transfer of sex offender to community program or residence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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| NY | S00383 | Intro
25% | Establishes a credentialing pilot program for direct support professionals to assist and enhance the field of direct care support.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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| NY | S01197 | Intro
25% | Requires daycare facilities to maintain evacuation and lockdown plans for children with disabilities during an emergency situation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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