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Assembly Bill A999A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

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

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2025-A999 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S382
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:
2021-2022: A9096, S7672
2023-2024: A2297, S1866

2025-A999 - Summary

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

2025-A999 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    999
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. CLARK, HEVESI, LUPARDO, GLICK, SIMON, LUNSFORD,
   SIMONE, KELLES, MEEKS, BURDICK,  BENDETT,  JENSEN  --  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.
                                                            LBD01248-01-5

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2025-A999A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S382
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:
2021-2022: A9096, S7672
2023-2024: A2297, S1866

2025-A999A (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2025-A999A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  999--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. CLARK, HEVESI, LUPARDO, GLICK, SIMON, LUNSFORD,
   SIMONE,  KELLES,  MEEKS,  BURDICK,  BENDETT,   JENSEN,   SANTABARBARA,
   SEAWRIGHT,  SEMPOLINSKI  -- read once and referred to the Committee on
   People with Disabilities -- reported and referred to the Committee  on
   Ways   and  Means  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 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) (I) is attributable to intellectual  disability,  cerebral  palsy,
 epilepsy,  neurological  impairment, familial dysautonomia, Prader-Willi
 syndrome or autism; OR (II) IS ATTRIBUTABLE TO  FETAL  ALCOHOL  SPECTRUM
 DISORDERS  (FASD)  INCLUDING FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME (FAS), PARTIAL FETAL
 ALCOHOL SYNDROME (PFAS), AND ALCOHOL-RELATED NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER
 (ARND), PROVIDED, HOWEVER,  THAT  FOR  THE  PURPOSES  OF  THIS  SECTION,
 PERSONS SO CONSIDERED UNDER THIS CLAUSE SHALL:
   (A) BE OVER THE AGE OF SEVEN YEARS;
   (B) HAVE AN FASD QUALIFYING DIAGNOSIS BY A PROVIDER;
   (C)  HAVE  AN  ONSET OF SUCH CONDITION, DISORDER, OR SYNDROME PRIOR TO
 THE AGE OF TWENTY-TWO;
   (D) EXHIBIT A LIKELIHOOD OF INDEFINITE CONTINUATION OF SUCH CONDITION,
 DISORDER, OR SYNDROME; AND
   (E) SUCH DIAGNOSIS MUST HAVE A  SUBSTANTIAL  IMPACT  ON  THE  PERSON'S
 ABILITY TO COMPLETE ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING;
   § 2. This act shall take effect twenty-four months after it shall have
 become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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