STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5974 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 21, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, ZEBROWSKI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to adding Prader- Willi syndrome to the definition of developmental disability 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 section 4 of part 3 MM of chapter 58 of the laws of 2015, 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 or autism; 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07000-01-7