Bill Text: NY S04132 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities, the commissioner of education, the commissioner of health, the commissioner of the office of children and family services and the commissioner of mental health to study and report the costs to the state for the early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder and the long-term treatment for individuals with autism spectrum disorder.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-09 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S04132 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S04132-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4132
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 21, 2011
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       Introduced  by Sen. McDONALD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop-
         mental Disabilities
       AN ACT to direct the commissioner of the office for people with develop-
         mental disabilities to study and report upon the cost to the state for
         the early diagnosis and long-term treatment of autism spectrum  disor-
         der
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The commissioner of the office  for  people  with  develop-
    2  mental  disabilities, the commissioner of education, the commissioner of
    3  health, the commissioner of the office of children and  family  services
    4  and  the  commissioner  of  mental  health  shall  cause  a  study to be
    5  performed on the costs to the state for the early  diagnosis  of  autism
    6  spectrum disorder and the long-term treatment of individuals with autism
    7  spectrum  disorder.   Such study shall include, but not be limited to, a
    8  projected estimate of future cost to the  state  associated  with  state
    9  services  that will be needed to accommodate the growth in the number of
   10  individuals being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.
   11    S 2. On or before April 1, 2013, the commissioner of  the  office  for
   12  people  with  developmental disabilities, the commissioner of education,
   13  the commissioner of health, the commissioner of the office  of  children
   14  and  family services and the commissioner of mental health shall deliver
   15  a copy of the findings of the study conducted pursuant to section one of
   16  this act and any legislative recommendations  he  or  she  deems  to  be
   17  necessary  to  the  governor, the temporary president of the senate, the
   18  speaker of the assembly, the chair of the  mental  health  and  develop-
   19  mental disabilities committee of the senate, and the chair of the mental
   20  health committee of the assembly.
   21    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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