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Assembly Bill A9096

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to adding fetal alcohol spectrum disorders to the definition of developmental disability

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2021-A9096 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7672
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1.03, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2023-2024: A2297, S1866
2025-2026: A999, S382

2021-A9096 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2021-A9096 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9096
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on People with 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:

   Section  1.  Subparagraph  1  of  paragraph  (a)  of subdivision 22 of
 section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law, as amended by chapter 114 of the
 laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   (1)  is  attributable  to  intellectual  disability,  cerebral  palsy,
 epilepsy,  neurological  impairment, familial dysautonomia, Prader-Willi
 syndrome, FETAL  ALCOHOL  SPECTRUM  DISORDERS  INCLUDING  FETAL  ALCOHOL
 SYNDROME,  PARTIAL  FETAL  ALCOHOL  SYNDROME (PFAS), AND ALCOHOL-RELATED
 NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER (ARND), or autism;
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13909-02-1

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