New York A 8982: Adds components sold with instructions to combine such components to create combustion or detonation to the definition of explosives; repealer

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A08982 Summary:

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Requires a residential transition conference when a person with developmental disabilities transfers from one program run by a covered operator to another program run by a covered operator; defines terms; specifies certain persons who shall attend such conference; requires covered operators to complete a form summarizing such conference and to file the form with the office for people with developmental disabilities.

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08/13/2025referred to people with disabilities

01/07/2026referred to people with disabilities

01/20/2026enacting clause stricken

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 8982

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 August 13, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on People with Disabilities

 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to requiring a resi-
 dential transition conference when a person with developmental disa-
 bilities transfers from one program run by a covered operator to
 another program run by a covered operator

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section
 2 16.39 to read as follows:
 3 § 16.39 Residential transition conferences.
 4 (a) Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms
 5 shall have the following meanings:
 6 (1) "covered operator" shall mean any holder of an operating certif-
 7 icate issued pursuant to this article that provides residential
 8 services, any organization providing residential services whose incorpo-
 9 ration or activities require the approval of the commissioner, or any
 10 program funded or administered by the office that provides residential
 11 services.
 12 (2) "individualized service plan" or "life plan" shall mean a written
 13 document that outlines a person with developmental disabilities': goals
 14 and desired outcomes; habilitation goals; strengths and preferences;
 15 assessed clinical and support needs (whether paid or unpaid); services
 16 and providers; and safeguards, including back-up plans and strategies.
 17 (b) It shall be the duty of every covered operator to participate in a
 18 residential transition conference before a person with developmental
 19 disabilities enters such covered operator's residential program from a
 20 program run by another covered operator or leaves their residential
 21 program for a program run by another covered operator. Attendance at
 22 such conference shall include:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 1 (1) the covered operator who currently serves a person with develop-
 2 mental disabilities;
 3 (2) the covered operator who will serve such person with developmental
 4 disabilities after the transition;
 5 (3) the person with developmental disabilities who is entering or
 6 leaving such residential program, unless such person's attendance is
 7 contraindicated for reasons of health or safety;
 8 (4) the person with developmental disabilities' family, unless such
 9 person objects to their family's attendance;
 10 (5) the person with developmental disabilities' guardian or legal
 11 representative; and
 12 (6) the person with developmental disabilities' care manager.
 13 (c) (1) The purpose of the residential transition conference shall be
 14 for the covered operator who currently serves the person with develop-
 15 mental disabilities to review and discuss such person's life plan with
 16 the covered operator who will be serving the individual after the
 17 completion of the transition, as well as to provide the other attendees
 18 of such conference with an opportunity to ask questions or provide addi-
 19 tional information regarding such life plan to the covered operator who
 20 will be serving the individual after t