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Senate Bill S419

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires vehicles used to transport recipients of services from a provider, subject to regulation by the office for people with developmental disabilities, to be equipped with video cameras

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2015-S419 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Mental Health And Developmental Disabilities
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง16.25, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S6809
2017-2018: S1183

2015-S419 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires vehicles used to transport recipients of services from a provider, subject to regulation by the office for people with developmental disabilities, to be equipped with video cameras.

2015-S419 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S419 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   419

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  MARCELLINO  -- read twice and ordered printed, and
  when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Mental  Health  and
  Developmental Disabilities

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  mental  hygiene  law,  in relation to requiring
  surveillance  cameras  in  transport  vehicles  for  people  receiving
  services from the office for people with developmental disabilities

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a  new  section
16.25 to read as follows:
S 16.25 VEHICLE SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS.
  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL ADOPT REGULATIONS REQUIRING THE USE OF ONE OR
MORE VIDEO SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS WITH SOUND CAPABILITIES IN ALL  VEHICLES
USED  FOR  THE  PRIMARY  PURPOSE  OF  TRANSPORTING SERVICE RECIPIENTS TO
PROGRAMMING,  ACTIVITIES  OR  SERVICES  BY  FACILITIES,  PROVIDERS   AND
PROGRAMS  OPERATED,  LICENSED,  CERTIFIED,  AUTHORIZED  OR FUNDED BY THE
OFFICE.  FACILITIES, PROVIDERS OR PROGRAMS MAY ONLY TRANSPORT A  SERVICE
RECIPIENT IN A VEHICLE WITHOUT SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS IN EMERGENCY CIRCUM-
STANCES WHEN SUCH A VEHICLE WITH SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS IS UNAVAILABLE AND
LACK  OF  TRANSPORTATION  MAY  AFFECT  THE HEALTH OR SAFETY OF A SERVICE
RECIPIENT.  REGULATIONS SHALL SPECIFY THE PERIOD OF TIME FOR WHICH  SUCH
RECORDINGS  SHALL  BE MAINTAINED AND STORED, WHICH SHALL BE NO LESS THAN
FIVE YEARS FROM THE DATE OF CREATION, AND SHALL OUTLINE  THE  MANNER  IN
WHICH RECORDINGS SHALL BE MAINTAINED AND STORED.  REGULATIONS SHALL ALSO
REQUIRE  THAT  THE  FIELD  OF OBSERVATION OF SUCH SURVEILLANCE CAMERA OR
CAMERAS COVER THE ENTIRETY OF THE INTERIOR OF THE  TRANSPORTATION  VEHI-
CLE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02386-01-5

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