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Assembly Bill A10139

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires providers of residential services to developmentally disabled children to have electronic monitoring devices in the common areas of their residential facilities

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2025-A10139 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Add §16.39, Ment Hyg L

2025-A10139 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires providers of residential services to developmentally disabled children to have electronic monitoring devices in the common areas of their residential facilities.

2025-A10139 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10139
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on People with Disabilities
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to duties of provid-
   ers of services for the developmentally disabled
 
   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
 16.39 to read as follows:
 § 16.39 ELECTRONIC MONITORING DEVICES.
   (A) (I) ELECTRONIC MONITORING DEVICES WITH SOUND CAPABILITY  SHALL  BE
 INSTALLED  IN ALL PUBLIC COMMON AREAS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ALL
 COMMON LIVING AREAS, DINING AREAS,  HALLWAYS,  CLASSROOMS  AND  TIME-OUT
 ROOMS  IN  ALL  GROUP  HOMES,  RESIDENTIAL  AND DAY SCHOOLS AND PROGRAMS
 LICENSED, CERTIFIED, FUNDED OR OPERATED  BY  THE  OFFICE  WHICH  PROVIDE
 SERVICES FOR CHILDREN OR ADULTS WITH MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITIES.
   (II) ALL PUBLIC COMMON AREAS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ALL COMMON
 LIVING AREAS, DINING AREAS, HALLWAYS, CLASSROOMS AND TIME-OUT ROOMS OF A
 FACILITY PROVIDING RESIDENTIAL CARE TO YOUTH WHICH IS OPERATED, LICENSED
 OR  CERTIFIED BY THE OFFICE OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES, OR WHICH IS
 SUBJECT TO THE SUPERVISION OF SUCH OFFICE SHALL BE EQUIPPED  WITH  ELEC-
 TRONIC MONITORING DEVICES WITH SOUND CAPABILITY.
   (III)  A  CONSPICUOUS NOTICE SHALL BE POSTED IN ALL SUBJECT FACILITIES
 ADVISING INDIVIDUALS ENTERING THAT VIDEO AND SOUND IS BEING CAPTURED.
   (B) IN ALL RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES STATEWIDE FOR CHILDREN  WITH  MENTAL
 DISABILITIES  CERTIFIED,  LICENSED,  FUNDED  OR  OPERATED BY THE OFFICE,
 EVERY RESIDENT OR THEIR PARENT OR GUARDIAN  MAY  INSTALL,  OPERATE,  AND
 MAINTAIN  AN  ELECTRONIC MONITORING DEVICE IN SUCH RESIDENT'S BEDROOM AT
 THEIR OWN EXPENSE, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT:
   (I) THE RESIDENT IS IN A SINGLE OCCUPANCY BEDROOM;
   (II) SUCH RESIDENT OR SUCH RESIDENT'S PARENT OR GUARDIAN NOTIFIES  THE
 FACILITY  THAT  AN  ELECTRONIC MONITORING DEVICE IS MONITORING THE RESI-
 DENT'S BEDROOM, AND WHETHER THE ELECTRONIC  MONITORING  DEVICE  CAPTURES
 VIDEO, AUDIO, OR A COMBINATION THEREOF; AND
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14783-01-6
              

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