Senate Bill S1823

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires providers of residential services to developmentally disabled children to have surveillance cameras in the common areas of their residential facilities

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Mental Health And Developmental Disabilities Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S1823 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3182
Current Committee:
Senate Mental Health And Developmental Disabilities
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Add §16.39, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S5089, A10845
2021-2022: S4569, A7321
2023-2024: S3087

2019-S1823 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires providers of residential services to developmentally disabled children to have surveillance cameras in the common areas of their residential facilities.

2019-S1823 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S1823 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1823
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 16, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop-
   mental Disabilities
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to duties of provid-
   ers of services for the developmentally disabled

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section
 16.39 to read as follows:
 § 16.39 SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS.
   (A) (I) SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS WITH SOUND CAPABILITY SHALL BE  INSTALLED
 IN  ALL  PUBLIC  COMMON  AREAS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ALL COMMON
 LIVING AREAS, DINING AREAS, HALLWAYS, CLASSROOMS AND TIME-OUT  ROOMS  IN
 ALL  GROUP  HOMES,  RESIDENTIAL  AND  DAY SCHOOLS AND PROGRAMS LICENSED,
 CERTIFIED, FUNDED OR OPERATED BY THE OFFICE WHICH PROVIDE  SERVICES  FOR
 CHILDREN OR ADULTS WITH MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITIES.
   (II) ALL PUBLIC COMMON AREAS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ALL COMMON
 LIVING AREAS, DINING AREAS, HALLWAYS, CLASSROOMS AND TIME-OUT ROOMS OF A
 FACILITY PROVIDING RESIDENTIAL CARE TO YOUTH WHICH IS OPERATED, LICENSED
 OR  CERTIFIED BY THE OFFICE OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES, OR WHICH IS
 SUBJECT TO THE  SUPERVISION  OF  SUCH  OFFICE  SHALL  BE  EQUIPPED  WITH
 SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS WITH SOUND CAPABILITY.
   (B)  IN ALL RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES STATEWIDE, FOR CHILDREN WITH MENTAL
 DISABILITIES CERTIFIED, LICENSED, FUNDED  OR  OPERATED  BY  THE  OFFICE,
 SURVEILLANCE  CAMERAS MAY BE PLACED IN A CHILD'S, AGE THIRTEEN OR YOUNG-
 ER, ROOM AT THE REQUEST OF AND WITH THE CONSENT OF THE CHILD'S PARENT OR
 GUARDIAN AND ONLY IF THE CHILD IS IN A SINGLE OCCUPANCY BEDROOM.
   (C) ANY PROVIDER THAT  FAILS  TO  IMPLEMENT  THE  PROVISIONS  OF  THIS
 SECTION  SHALL BE SUBJECTED TO A FINE OF ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS PER DAY OF
 NONCOMPLIANCES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
 law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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