Bill Text: NY S00382 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Adds fetal alcohol spectrum disorders to the definition of developmental disability.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO DISABILITIES [S00382 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S00382-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           382

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  BROUK, ASHBY, FERNANDEZ, GONZALEZ, HOYLMAN-SIGAL,
          MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and  when  printed  to  be
          committed to the Committee on Disabilities

        AN  ACT  to    amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to adding fetal
          alcohol spectrum disorders  to the definition of  developmental  disa-
          bility

          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,  fetal  alcohol  spectrum  disorders  including  fetal alcohol
     7  syndrome, partial fetal alcohol  syndrome  (pFAS),  and  alcohol-related
     8  neurodevelopmental disorder (ARND), or autism;
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





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