S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3431 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E February 22, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop- mental 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 chapter 255 of the laws of 2002, is 3 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 S 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. LBD09453-01-1