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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee&nbspVotes Floor&nbspVotes Memo Text LFIN Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript S04344 Summary: BILL NO S04344A &nbsp SAME AS SAME AS A03556-A

&nbsp SPONSOR COMRIE &nbsp COSPNSR &nbsp MLTSPNSR &nbsp Add §13.28, Ment Hyg L &nbsp Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities to issue a residential request list and placement report to the governor, the senate and the assembly.

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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________

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2025-2026 Regular Sessions

IN SENATE

February 4, 2025 ___________

Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Disabilities -- recommit- ted to the Committee on Disabilities in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to requiring the office for people with developmental disabilities to issue a residen- tial request list and placement report to the governor and the legis- lature

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 13.28 to read as follows: 3 § 13.28 Office for people with developmental disabilities; residential 4 request list and placement report. 5 (a) The office shall issue a report to the governor, the speaker of 6 the assembly, and the temporary president of the senate, within eighteen 7 months of the effective date of this section, setting forth the number 8 of individuals with developmental disabilities who are on the residen- 9 tial request list seeking placement. The residential request report 10 shall include: 11 1. the statewide number of individuals awaiting placement broken down 12 into the total number of individuals from within each developmental 13 disability services office's geographic area; 14 2. the number of individuals awaiting placement in any certified resi- 15 dential setting categorized by the length of time such individuals have 16 been awaiting placement, and divided into certified out-of-home, super- 17 vised, supportive placement and the number of such persons who are 18 medically frail requiring intensive medical care; and 19 3. the number of individuals expected to require home and community 20 based services waiver-funded habilitation services at-home.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05605-03-6

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1 (b) The commissioner shall issue a report summarizing the number of 2 individuals who are currently placed in a residential program and who 3 are awaiting an alternative placement. These individuals shall be 4 divided according to: 5 1. the number and age of such individuals; 6 2. the number of children in residential placements expected to age 7 out of such placements within a year and plans for continuing their 8 placements as adults; 9 3. the number of individuals who have asked for an alternative place- 10 ment, either themselves or through their parent or guardian acting on 11 their behalf, over the twelve month period preceding the date of release 12 of the report, with categorical descriptions of the reasons for such 13 results and any actions taken or planned to remedy such situation; and 14 4. any other information deemed necessary by the commissioner. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 16 have become a law.

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