Bill Text: NY A05793 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An act to amend the legislative law, in relation to requiring public hearings on the budget to make accommodations for the hearing impaired

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-13 - held for consideration in governmental operations [A05793 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A05793-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5793
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 20, 2009
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       Introduced  by M. of A. HAYES -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Governmental Operations
       AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in  relation  to  requiring  public
         hearings on the budget to make accommodations for the hearing impaired
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 32-a of the legislative law, as  added  by  chapter
    2  762 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S 32-a. Budget;  public hearings. After submission and prior to enact-
    4  ment of the executive budget,  the  senate  finance  committee  and  the
    5  assembly  ways  and  means committee jointly or separately shall conduct
    6  public hearings on the budget. Such hearings may be conducted regionally
    7  to provide individuals and organizations throughout the  state  with  an
    8  opportunity  to  comment  on the budget. The committees shall make every
    9  effort to hear all those who wish to present statements at  such  public
   10  hearings.  The  chairs  of  the  committees  jointly or separately shall
   11  publish a schedule of hearings.  THE COMMITTEES SHALL  ENSURE  THAT  THE
   12  SERVICES  OF A QUALIFIED INTERPRETER OR AN ASSISTIVE LISTENING SYSTEM IS
   13  AVAILABLE AT SUCH HEARINGS AT NO CHARGE TO ANY  PERSON  WHO  IS  HEARING
   14  IMPAIRED.  FOR  PURPOSES  OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM "ASSISTIVE LISTENING
   15  SYSTEM" SHALL MEAN SITUATIONAL-PERSONAL ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT
   16  DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THE TRANSMISSION AND AUDITORY  RECEPTION  OF  SOUND.
   17  SUCH  SYSTEM  SHALL  INCLUDE  BUT  NOT BE LIMITED TO THE USE OF STANDARD
   18  AMPLITUDE MODULATION (AM), FREQUENCY MODULATION  (FM),  AUDIO  INDUCTION
   19  LOOP, INFRARED LIGHT SOUND, OR HARD WIRE SYSTEMS.
   20    S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
   21  ing the date on which 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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