New York A 911: Clarifies the definition of persons with a disability for purposes of the definition of special populations

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A00911 Summary:

BILL NOA00911A

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SAME ASSAME AS S04269

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SPONSORForrest

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §2, Cor L

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Clarifies the definition of persons with a disability for purposes of the definition of special populations to include people with a mental health diagnosis, people on the office of mental health caseload, people with an intellectual, developmental or cognitive diagnosis, people with physical disability or mobility impairment, and people with a sensorial disability diagnosis.

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BILL NOA00911A

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01/08/2025referred to correction

02/07/2025amend and recommit to correction

02/07/2025print number 911a

01/07/2026referred to correction

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 911--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. FORREST -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Correction -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
 reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to clarifying the defi-
 nition of persons with a disability for purposes of the definition of
 special populations

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

 1 Section 1. Paragraphs (c) and (d) of subdivision 33 of section 2 of
 2 the correction law, as added by chapter 93 of the laws of 2021, are
 3 amended to read as follows:
 4 (c) with a disability as defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision twen-
 5 ty-one of section two hundred ninety-two of the executive law, which
 6 includes all diagnosable conditions, including all people on the office
 7 of mental health caseload currently and all people with any disability
 8 (including but not limited to any intellectual, mental health, develop-
 9 mental, cognitive, physical, mobility, sensorial, medical, or other
 10 disability, a traumatic brain injury, or an organic brain syndrome);
 11 [or] (d) who had been on the office of mental health caseload, or had a
 12 diagnosis of any disability (including any intellectual, mental health,
 13 developmental, cognitive, physical, sensorial, medical, or other disa-
 14 bility) within the previous year; or (e) who is pregnant, in the first
 15 eight weeks of the post-partum recovery period after giving birth, or
 16 caring for a child in a correctional institution pursuant to subdivi-
 17 sions two or three of section six hundred eleven of this chapter.
 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02084-03-5

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