Bill Text: NY S07762 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Defines a "three-unit service dog team" and grants rights and privileges to such teams.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-18 - REFERRED TO RULES [S07762 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S07762-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7762
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     June 18, 2012
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       Introduced  by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
       AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to defining a  "three-
         unit  service  dog  team"  and  granting rights and privileges to such
         teams
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 47-b of the civil rights law is amended by adding a
    2  new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
    3    3-A.  PERSONS  WHO  ARE  PART  OF A THREE-UNIT SERVICE DOG TEAM, WHILE
    4  ENGAGED IN CONTINUING TRAINING OF A SERVICE DOG,  SHALL  HAVE  THE  SAME
    5  RIGHTS  AND  PRIVILEGES  SET FORTH FOR PERSONS WITH A DISABILITY IN THIS
    6  ARTICLE. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS ARTICLE,  "THREE-UNIT  SERVICE  DOG  TEAM"
    7  SHALL  MEAN  A  TEAM CONSISTING OF A PERSON WITH A DISABILITY, A TRAINED
    8  SERVICE DOG, AND A PERSON OVER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN WHO HAS BEEN  TRAINED
    9  TO HANDLE A SERVICE DOG.
   10    S 2. 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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