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                                   2835
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2023
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- 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-g
 to read as follows:
   § 170-G. 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
   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 21 and 22 of section 103 of the state technology law
 are renumbered subdivisions 22 and 23, and a new subdivision 21 is added
 to read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   21. 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-G OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it  shall  have  become  a law; provided, however that the provisions of
 section two of this act shall take effect on the same date  and  in  the
 same manner as chapter 658 of the laws of 2022, takes effect.