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                                    207
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. SANTABARBARA, ABINANTI, SIMON, SKOUFIS, MOSLEY,
   ORTIZ, COOK, TITONE, WALTER, BENEDETTO, BLAKE, MONTESANO,  RICHARDSON,
   STECK, STIRPE, M. G. MILLER, LENTOL, JENNE, BARRETT, RAMOS, PALMESANO,
   WEPRIN, JAFFEE, HUNTER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, HYND-
   MAN,  RAIA  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental
   Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law  and  the  state  technology  law,  in
   relation  to  providing  for  multi-formatted  services  menus for the
   cognitively impaired on websites operated by certain state agencies
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  The executive law is amended by adding a new section 170-c
 to read as follows:
   §  170-C. MULTI-FORMATTED SERVICES MENUS FOR THE COGNITIVELY IMPAIRED.
 THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, THE OFFICE FOR PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISA-
 BILITIES AND THE OFFICE OF MENTAL HEALTH SHALL DEVELOP, WITH THE ASSIST-
 ANCE OF THE OFFICE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY  SERVICES,  MULTI-FORMATTED
 SERVICES  MENUS  FOR PERSONS WHO SUFFER FROM A DISABILITY ARISING FROM A
 COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT, WHICH SHALL BE ACCESSIBLE FROM THE  HOME  PAGE  OF
 SUCH  WEBSITE.  SUCH  SERVICES  MENUS  SHALL  INCLUDE A COMPLETE LIST OF
 AVAILABLE SERVICES FROM EACH SUCH AGENCY IN THE FOLLOWING FORMATS:
   1. CHARTS AND GRAPHS FOR VISUAL LEARNERS;
   2. DYNAMIC FLOWCHARTS FOR VISUAL THINKERS. SUCH FLOWCHARTS SHALL:
   (A) MATCH THE WEBSITE VISITOR TO THE AREAS  MOST  CLOSELY  RELATED  TO
 SUCH  WEBSITE VISITOR'S INQUIRY BY ASKING THE WEBSITE VISITOR INDIVIDUAL
 QUESTIONS AND THEN PRODUCING RESPONSES IN LOGICAL SEQUENCE; AND
   (B) ALLOW WEBSITE VISITORS TO REVISE THEIR ANSWERS  AT  ANY  POINT  IN
 ORDER TO BE PROMPTED TO THE NEXT MENU; AND

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05254-01-7
              

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   3.  VIDEOS  FOR  AUDITORY  LEARNERS.  SUCH VIDEOS SHALL INCLUDE CLOSED
 CAPTIONS AND A FULL TRANSCRIPT OF SUCH VIDEOS FOR REVIEW  OF  REFERENCES
 OR INFORMATION MENTIONED IN SUCH VIDEOS.
   § 2. Subdivisions 20 and 21 of section 103 of the state technology law
 are renumbered subdivisions 21 and 22, and a new subdivision 20 is added
 to read as follows:
   20.  TO  ADVISE  AND  ASSIST  THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, THE OFFICE FOR
 PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND THE OFFICE OF  MENTAL  HEALTH
 IN DEVELOPING MULTI-FORMATTED SERVICES MENUS FOR PERSONS WHO SUFFER FROM
 A DISABILITY ARISING FROM A COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION ONE
 HUNDRED SEVENTY-C OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW.
   §  3.    This  act  shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day
 after it shall have become a law.