Bill Text: NY A05216 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that a sponsoring agency must make a presentation at a public hearing before a residential facility for the disabled may be placed in a municipality.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to mental health [A05216 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05216-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5216

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 7, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. FITZPATRICK, TAGUE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
          A.  MANKTELOW  --  read  once  and referred to the Committee on Mental
          Health

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to requiring a spon-
          soring agency to make  a  presentation  to  a  municipality  prior  to
          consideration of placement of a residential facility for the disabled

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision (c)  of  section  41.34  of  the
     2  mental  hygiene  law, as amended by chapter 1024 of the laws of 1981, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (2) Prior to forwarding a response to the sponsoring  agency  and  the
     5  commissioner,  the  municipality  may  hold a public hearing pursuant to
     6  local law.  Should the municipality decide to hold a public hearing, the
     7  sponsoring agency shall make a presentation, using appropriate audio-vi-
     8  sual technology, at which the sponsoring agency shall present the histo-
     9  ry and background of the sponsoring agency, the number of employees  who
    10  will be working at the residential facility, the number of residents who
    11  will be living in the residential facility, and an outline of any struc-
    12  tural   changes which will be made to existing buildings on the premises
    13  where it is proposed that this facility be located.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08543-01-3