Bill Text: NY S03288 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to establishing an electronic monitoring program for children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder as well as other developmental disabilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-14 - referred to health [S03288 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S03288-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3288--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 4, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health --  recommitted  to
          the  Committee  on  Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the public health law and the executive law, in relation
          to  establishing  an  electronic monitoring program for children diag-
          nosed with an autism spectrum disorder as well as other  developmental
          disabilities
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  2508 to read as follows:
     3    § 2508. Electronic monitoring for children with developmental disabil-
     4  ities.  1.  For  the  purposes of this section the following terms shall
     5  have the following meanings:
     6    (a) "commissioner" shall mean the commissioner of health;
     7    (b) "child" shall mean a person under the age of eighteen years;
     8    (c) "eligible applicant" shall mean  the  parent,  legal  guardian  or
     9  custodian  of a child who has been diagnosed by a physician as having an
    10  autism spectrum disorder as determined by section twenty-five  hundred-j
    11  of this title or other developmental disability;
    12    (d)  "authorized family member" shall mean a designated parent, grand-
    13  parent, sibling older than the age of eighteen, legal guardian or custo-
    14  dian who is authorized to use a receiving device that is able  to  track
    15  the  geographic  location of an electronic monitoring device. Such indi-
    16  viduals shall be listed on the application submitted to the  department;
    17  and
    18    (e)  "electronic monitoring device" shall mean any radio, global posi-
    19  tioning system, cellular device or any other satellite-based  monitoring
    20  device  that  can provide continuous tracking of the geographic location
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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