New York S 4342: Relates to requiring all required literacy classes for teachers to include the structured multisensory approach

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S04342 Summary:

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Amd §41.34, Ment Hyg L

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Provides that a sponsoring agency shall give notice to persons owning property within 500 feet of a proposed site of a community residential facility; requires hearings to include evaluation of alternative sites; gives the municipality additional time to respond; gives municipality sixty rather than forty days after such notice to approve or object to the proposed site.

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02/04/2025REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH

01/07/2026REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 4342

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 4, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health

 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to procedures in
 selection of sites for community residential facilities

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

 1 Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (c) of section 41.34 of the
 2 mental hygiene law, as amended by chapter 1024 of the laws of 1981 and
 3 subparagraph (C) as amended by chapter 823 of the laws of 1992, is
 4 amended to read as follows:
 5 (1) When a site has been selected by the sponsoring agency, it shall
 6 notify all persons owning property within five hundred feet of the
 7 proposed site and the chief executive officer of the municipality in
 8 writing [and include in such notice]. Such notice shall include the
 9 specific address of the site, the type of community residence, the
 10 number of residents and the community support requirements of the
 11 program. [Such notice] The notice given to the municipality shall also
 12 contain the most recently published data compiled pursuant to section
 13 [four hundred sixty-three] four hundred sixty-three-a of the social
 14 services law which can reasonably be expected to permit the municipality
 15 to evaluate all such facilities affecting the nature and character of
 16 the area wherein such proposed facility is to be located. The munici-
 17 pality shall have [forty] sixty days after the receipt of such notice
 18 to:
 19 (A) approve the site recommended by the sponsoring agency;
 20 (B) suggest one or more suitable sites within its jurisdiction which
 21 could accommodate such a facility; or
 22 (C) object to the establishment of a facility of the kind described by
 23 the sponsoring agency because to do so would result in such a concen-
 24 tration of community residential facilities for the mentally disabled in
 25 the municipality or in the area in proximity to the site selected or a

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05602-01-5

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 1 combination of such facilities with other community residences or simi-
 2 lar facilities licensed by other agencies of state government, including
 3 all community residences, intermediate care facilities, residential care
 4 facilities for adults and residential treatment facilities for individ-
 5 uals with mental illness or developmental disabilities operated pursuant
 6 to article sixteen or article thirty-one of this chapter and all similar
 7 residential facilities of fourteen or less residents operated or
 8 licensed by another state agency, that the nature and character of the
 9 areas within the municipality would be substantially altered.
 10 Such response shall be forwarded to the sponsoring agency and the
 11 commissioner. If the municipality does not respond within [forty] sixty
 12 days, the sponsoring agency may establish a community residence at a
 13 site recommended in its notice.
 14 § 2. Paragraph 5 of subdivision (c) of section 41.34 of the mental
 15 hygiene law, as amended by chapter 37 of the laws of 2011, is amended to
 16 read as follows:
 17 (5) In the event the municipality objects to establishment of a facil-
 18 ity in the municipality