Bill Text: NY A05016 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to adding spina bifida to the definition of developmental disability in the mental hygiene law.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-7)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-23 - reported referred to ways and means [A05016 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05016-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5016

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 27, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on People with Disabilities

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law,  in  relation  to  adding  spina
          bifida to the definition of developmental disability

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph 1  of  paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  22  of
     2  section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law, as amended by chapter 114 of the
     3  laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (1)  is  attributable  to  intellectual  disability,  cerebral  palsy,
     5  epilepsy, neurological impairment, familial  dysautonomia,  Prader-Willi
     6  syndrome, spina bifida or autism;
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09133-01-3