Bill Text: NY S00145 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends Kendra's law, in relation to making the provisions thereof permanent.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO DISABILITIES [S00145 Detail]
Download: New_York-2025-S00145-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 145 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. PALUMBO, BORRELLO, OBERACKER, ORTT, STEC, WEIK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Disabilities AN ACT to amend Kendra's law, in relation to making the provisions ther- eof permanent The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 18 of chapter 408 of the laws of 1999, constituting 2 Kendra's law, as amended by section 1 of subpart H of part UU of chapter 3 56 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows: 4 § 18. This act shall take effect immediately, provided that section 5 fifteen of this act shall take effect April 1, 2000, provided, further, 6 that subdivision (e) of section 9.60 of the mental hygiene law as added 7 by section six of this act shall be effective 90 days after this act 8 shall become law[; and that this act shall expire and be deemed repealed9June 30, 2027]. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00617-01-5