New York S 4269: Clarifies the definition of persons with a disability for purposes of the definition of special populations

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S04269 Summary:

BILL NOS04269 

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SAME ASSAME AS A00911-A

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SPONSORSALAZAR

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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 NOS04269 

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02/03/2025REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4269

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 3, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
 Correction

 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.
 LBD02084-02-5

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