Bill Text: NY A00070 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 70 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires video cameras to be placed on the entrances/exits of all facilities run by the office for people with developmental disabilities.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to ways and means [A00070 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00070-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           70

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GUNTHER, DINOWITZ, BENEDETTO, WEPRIN, ENGLE-
          BRIGHT, THIELE, BARRETT, FAHY,  JEAN-PIERRE,  ABINANTI,  SANTABARBARA,
          FERNANDEZ,  REYES,  GOTTFRIED, MONTESANO, McDONOUGH -- Multi-Sponsored
          by -- M. of A.  BRAUNSTEIN, GALEF -- read once  and  referred  to  the
          Committee on Mental Health

        AN  ACT  to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to requiring video
          cameras in facilities operated by the office for people with  develop-
          mental disabilities

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 13.25 of the  mental  hygiene  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision (c) to read as follows:
     3    (c) Facilities operated by the office, including group homes, residen-
     4  tial  homes,  inpatient  facilities  and all other facilities under this
     5  title shall install video  cameras  at  all  entrances  and  exits.  The
     6  commissioner,  in  consultation  with  the state police, shall develop a
     7  system for maintaining such recorded images.
     8    § 2.  This act shall take effect on  the  one  hundred  eightieth  day
     9  after it shall have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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