Bill Text: NY A02835 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to providing for multi-formatted services menus for the cognitively impaired on websites operated by certain state agencies; includes the department of health, office for people with developmental disabilities and the office of mental health.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A02835 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02835-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2835

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    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:

     1    Section  1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 170-g
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 170-g. Multi-formatted services menus for the cognitively  impaired.
     4  The department of health, the office for people with developmental disa-
     5  bilities and the office of mental health shall develop, with the assist-
     6  ance  of  the office of information technology services, multi-formatted
     7  services menus for persons who suffer from a disability arising  from  a
     8  cognitive  impairment,  which  shall be accessible from the home page of
     9  such website. Such services menus  shall  include  a  complete  list  of
    10  available services from each such agency in the following formats:
    11    1. charts and graphs for visual learners;
    12    2. dynamic flowcharts for visual thinkers. Such flowcharts shall:
    13    (a)  match  the  website  visitor to the areas most closely related to
    14  such website visitor's inquiry by asking the website visitor  individual
    15  questions and then producing responses in logical sequence; and
    16    (b)  allow  website  visitors  to revise their answers at any point in
    17  order to be prompted to the next menu; and
    18    3. videos for auditory learners.  Such  videos  shall  include  closed
    19  captions  and  a full transcript of such videos for review of references
    20  or information mentioned in such videos.
    21    § 2. Subdivisions 21 and 22 of section 103 of the state technology law
    22  are renumbered subdivisions 22 and 23, and a new subdivision 21 is added
    23  to read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    21. To advise and assist the department  of  health,  the  office  for
     2  people  with  developmental disabilities and the office of mental health
     3  in developing multi-formatted services menus for persons who suffer from
     4  a disability arising from a cognitive impairment pursuant to section one
     5  hundred seventy-g of the executive law.
     6    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     7  it  shall  have  become  a law; provided, however that the provisions of
     8  section two of this act shall take effect on the same date  and  in  the
     9  same manner as chapter 658 of the laws of 2022, takes effect.