Bill Text: NY S03996 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the definition of "developmental disability" to include an inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of the disability.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-31 - REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH [S03996 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S03996-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3996

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 31, 2025
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation 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.  Paragraph  (d)  of  subdivision 22 of section 1.03 of the
     2  mental hygiene law, as amended by section 4 of part MM of chapter 58  of
     3  the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (d)  constitutes  a  substantial  handicap to such person's ability to
     5  function normally in society or results in an inability to engage in any
     6  substantial gainful activity by reason of the  disability  described  in
     7  subparagraph one or two of paragraph (a) of this subdivision.
     8    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
     9  have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06709-01-5