Bill Text: NY A09913 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the definition of "developmental disability" to include an inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of the disability.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-26 - referred to people with disabilities [A09913 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09913-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9913

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 26, 2024
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on People with Disabilities

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation 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.  Paragraph  (d)  of  subdivision 22 of section 1.03 of the
     2  mental hygiene law, as amended by section 4 of part MM of chapter 58  of
     3  the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (d)  constitutes  a  substantial  handicap to such person's ability to
     5  function normally in society or results in an inability to engage in any
     6  substantial gainful activity by reason of the  disability  described  in
     7  subparagraph one or two of paragraph (a) of this subdivision.
     8    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
     9  have become a law.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07585-01-3