Bill Text: NY A08708 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to providing for multi-formatted service 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.
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-6)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-01 - reported referred to ways and means [A08708 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A08708-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8708--B IN ASSEMBLY January 13, 2016 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA, ABINANTI, SIMON, SKOUFIS, MOSLEY, ORTIZ, COOK, TITONE, WALTER, BENEDETTO, BLAKE, ROBINSON, DUPREY, MONTESANO, RICHARDSON, STECK, SCHIMEL, STIRPE, GOLDFEDER, MILLER, LENTOL, RUSSELL, LINARES, BARRETT, RAMOS, PALMESANO, WEPRIN, JAFFEE, HUNTER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, CERETTO, HYNDMAN, RAIA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Oper- ations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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-c 2 to read as follows: 3 § 170-c. 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 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13620-03-6A. 8708--B 2 1 3. videos for auditory learners. Such videos shall include closed 2 captions and a full transcript of such videos for review of references 3 or information mentioned in such videos. 4 § 2. Subdivisions 20 and 21 of section 103 of the state technology law 5 are renumbered subdivisions 21 and 22, and a new subdivision 20 is added 6 to read as follows: 7 20. To advise and assist the department of health, the office for 8 people with developmental disabilities and the office of mental health 9 in developing multi-formatted services menus for persons who suffer from 10 a disability arising from a cognitive impairment pursuant to section one 11 hundred seventy-c of the executive law. 12 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day 13 after it shall have become a law.
