Bill Text: NY A03541 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires providers of services for the developmentally disabled to perform certain duties relating to the use of surveillance cameras in all public common areas in residential facilities.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-03 - held for consideration in mental health [A03541 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A03541-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3541
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 28, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WEISENBERG,  GUNTHER,  SCHIMEL, MONTESANO --
         Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BOYLAND, GOTTFRIED, McDONOUGH, ROBINSON
         -- read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health
       AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to duties of provid-
         ers of services for the developmentally disabled
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section
    2  16.25 to read as follows:
    3  S 16.25 SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS.
    4    (A) (I) SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS WITH SOUND CAPABILITY SHALL BE  INSTALLED
    5  IN  ALL  PUBLIC  COMMON  AREAS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ALL COMMON
    6  LIVING AREAS, DINING AREAS, HALLWAYS, CLASSROOMS AND TIME-OUT  ROOMS  IN
    7  ALL  GROUP  HOMES,  RESIDENTIAL  AND  DAY SCHOOLS AND PROGRAMS LICENSED,
    8  CERTIFIED, FUNDED OR OPERATED BY THE OFFICE WHICH PROVIDE  SERVICES  FOR
    9  CHILDREN OR ADULTS WITH MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITIES.
   10    (II) ALL PUBLIC COMMON AREAS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ALL COMMON
   11  LIVING AREAS, DINING AREAS, HALLWAYS, CLASSROOMS AND TIME-OUT ROOMS OF A
   12  FACILITY  PROVIDING RESIDENTIAL CARE TO YOUTH AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN
   13  PARAGRAPH (A) OR  (B)  OF  SUBDIVISION  FOUR  OF  SECTION  FOUR  HUNDRED
   14  TWELVE-A  OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW SHALL BE EQUIPPED WITH SURVEILLANCE
   15  CAMERAS WITH SOUND CAPABILITY.
   16    (B) IN ALL RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES STATEWIDE, FOR CHILDREN WITH  MENTAL
   17  DISABILITIES  CERTIFIED,  LICENSED,  FUNDED  OR  OPERATED BY THE OFFICE,
   18  SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS MAY BE PLACED IN A CHILD'S, AGE THIRTEEN OR  YOUNG-
   19  ER, ROOM AT THE REQUEST OF AND WITH THE CONSENT OF THE CHILD'S PARENT OR
   20  GUARDIAN AND ONLY IF THE CHILD IS IN A SINGLE OCCUPANCY BEDROOM.
   21    (C)  ANY  PROVIDER  THAT  FAILS  TO  IMPLEMENT  THE PROVISIONS OF THIS
   22  SECTION SHALL BE SUBJECTED TO A FINE OF ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS PER DAY  OF
   23  NONCOMPLIANCES.
   24    S  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
   25  law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD07410-01-3