Bill Text: NY A09096 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-10 - reported referred to ways and means [A09096 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09096-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9096

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 31, 2022
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        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:

     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph  1  of  paragraph  (a)  of subdivision 22 of
     2  section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law, as amended by chapter 114 of the
     3  laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (1)  is  attributable  to  intellectual  disability,  cerebral  palsy,
     5  epilepsy,  neurological  impairment, familial dysautonomia, Prader-Willi
     6  syndrome, fetal  alcohol  spectrum  disorders  including  fetal  alcohol
     7  syndrome,  partial  fetal  alcohol  syndrome (pFAS), and alcohol-related
     8  neurodevelopmental disorder (ARND), or autism;
     9    § 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