Bill Text: NY A09614 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires providers of services for the developmentally disabled to perform certain duties relating to the use of surveillance cameras in vehicles used to transport the developmentally disabled.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-12 - held for consideration in mental health [A09614 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A09614-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        9614--A
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 20, 2012
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. WEISENBERG, GUNTHER, P. RIVERA, TITUS -- Multi-
         Sponsored by -- M. of  A.  BOYLAND,  GOTTFRIED,  McDONOUGH,  ROBINSON,
         TITONE  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health --
         committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
         recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to duties of provid-
         ers of services for the developmentally disabled
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a  new  section
    2  16.25 to read as follows:
    3  S 16.25 SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS.
    4    (A)  (I) ALL STATE AND VOLUNTARY AGENCY VEHICLES USED BY PROVIDERS WHO
    5  ARE CERTIFIED, LICENSED, FUNDED OR OPERATED BY THE OFFICE THAT ARE  USED
    6  TO  TRANSPORT  CHILDREN  OR  ADULTS WITH MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITIES
    7  SHALL BE EQUIPPED WITH SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS WITH SOUND CAPABILITY.
    8    (II) ALL VEHICLES USED AT A FACILITY  PROVIDING  RESIDENTIAL  CARE  TO
    9  YOUTH  AS  SUCH  TERM  IS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH (A) OR (B) OF SUBDIVISION
   10  FOUR OF SECTION FOUR HUNDRED TWELVE-A OF  THE  SOCIAL  SERVICES  LAW  TO
   11  TRANSPORT  SUCH  YOUTH  SHALL BE EQUIPPED WITH SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS WITH
   12  SOUND CAPABILITY.
   13    (B) ANY SCHOOL OR PRIVATE TRANSPORT COMPANY VEHICLES USED TO TRANSPORT
   14  CHILDREN OR ADULTS WITH  MENTAL  DISABILITIES  SHALL  BE  EQUIPPED  WITH
   15  SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS WITH SOUND CAPABILITIES.
   16    (C)  ANY  PROVIDER  THAT  FAILS  TO  IMPLEMENT  THE PROVISIONS OF THIS
   17  SECTION SHALL BE SUBJECT TO A FINE OF ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS  PER  DAY  OF
   18  NONCOMPLIANCE.
   19    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   20  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD14975-03-2