New York A 11024: Relates to a competency restoration workgroup to evaluate

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A11024 Summary:

BILL NOA11024 

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SAME ASSAME AS S10309

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SPONSORSimon

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COSPNSRMcDonald, Kelles

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §7.50, Ment Hyg L

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Establishes a competency restoration workgroup to evaluate and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the competency restoration process as it relates to defendants who are being evaluated and receiving restoration under article seven hundred thirty of the criminal procedure law to permit legal proceedings to resume without undue delay.

Go to top A11024 Actions:

BILL NOA11024 

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04/23/2026referred to mental health

04/28/2026reported referred to ways and means

06/04/2026reported referred to rules

06/04/2026reported 

06/04/2026rules report cal.515

06/04/2026ordered to third reading rules cal.515

06/04/2026substituted by s10309

&nbspS10309 AMEND= BROUK

&nbsp05/12/2026REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH

&nbsp06/01/2026COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

&nbsp06/01/2026ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1513

&nbsp06/01/2026PASSED SENATE

&nbsp06/01/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp06/01/2026referred to ways and means

&nbsp06/04/2026substituted for a11024

&nbsp06/04/2026ordered to third reading rules cal.515

&nbsp06/04/2026passed assembly

&nbsp06/04/2026returned to senate

Go to topA11024 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:MENTAL HEALTH Chair:Simon 
DATE:04/28/2026AYE/NAY:12/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Ways and Means SimonAyeSempolinskiAye

SantabarbaraAyeBrownAye

JacksonAyeBaileyAye

GibbsAyeSmithAye

De Los SantosAye

EachusAye

BergerAye

Chandler-WatermExcused

TapiaAye

Committee:RULES Chair:Glick 
DATE:06/04/2026AYE/NAY:28/0 Action: Favorable HeastieExcusedRaAye

PretlowAyeHawleyAye

CookExcusedBlankenbushAye

GlickAyeBrabenecExcused

DinowitzAyePalmesanoAye

ColtonAyeReillyAye

MagnarelliAyeSmithAye

PaulinAyeJensenAye

Peoples-StokesAyeGandolfoAye

BenedettoAye

LavineAye

LupardoAye

BraunsteinAye

DavilaAye

HyndmanAye

RozicAye

BronsonAye

HevesiAye

HunterAye

TaylorAye

CruzAye

VanelAye

Committee:WAYS AND MEANS Chair:Pretlow 
DATE:06/04/2026AYE/NAY:32/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules PretlowAyePalmesanoAye

GlickAyeFitzpatrickAye

ColtonAyeHawleyAye

CookExcusedBlankenbushAye

BenedettoAyeWalshAye

WeprinAyeDeStefanoAye

RamosAyeManktelowAye

BraunsteinAyeSmullenAye

McDonaldAyeGiglioAye

RozicAyeSlaterAye

DinowitzAye

MagnarelliAye

BronsonAye

DilanAbsent

SeawrightAye

HyndmanAye

WalkerAbsent

Bichotte HermelAye

SimonAye

CruzAye

OtisAye

SolagesAye

HunterAye

SeptimoAye

HevesiAye

Go to topA11024 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA11024 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 11024

 IN ASSEMBLY

 April 23, 2026
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 Introduced by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Mental Health

 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to a statewide
 competency restoration workgroup; and providing for the repeal of such
 provisions upon the expiration thereof

 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 7.50 to read as follows:
 3 § 7.50 Statewide competency restoration workgroup.
 4 (a) There is hereby established a statewide competency restoration
 5 workgroup. The commissioner of the office of mental health and the
 6 commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities
 7 shall convene the statewide competency restoration workgroup which shall
 8 consist of nineteen members each of whom may appoint a designee as
 9 follows:
 10 (1) the commissioner of mental health;
 11 (2) the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disa-
 12 bilities;
 13 (3) the chief administrative judge of the courts;
 14 (4) the chair of the New York state conference of local mental hygiene
 15 directors;
 16 (5) the executive director of the New York state association of coun-
 17 ties;
 18 (6) the president of the district attorneys association of the state
 19 of New York;
 20 (7) the executive director of the New York state defenders associ-
 21 ation;
 22 (8) the president of the New York state sheriffs association;
 23 (9) a representativ