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                                   6284
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 12, 2021
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. SANTABARBARA, ABINANTI, SIMON, COOK, BENEDETTO,
   MONTESANO,  RICHARDSON,  STECK,  STIRPE,  BARRETT,  RAMOS,  PALMESANO,
   WEPRIN,  HUNTER  --  Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, HYNDMAN --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law  and  the  state  technology  law,  in
   relation  to  providing  for  multi-formatted  services  menus for the
   cognitively impaired on websites operated by certain state agencies
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  The executive law is amended by adding a new section 170-d
 to read as follows:
   §  170-D. MULTI-FORMATTED SERVICES MENUS FOR THE COGNITIVELY IMPAIRED.
 THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, THE OFFICE FOR PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISA-
 BILITIES AND THE OFFICE OF MENTAL HEALTH SHALL DEVELOP, WITH THE ASSIST-
 ANCE OF THE OFFICE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY  SERVICES,  MULTI-FORMATTED
 SERVICES  MENUS  FOR PERSONS WHO SUFFER FROM A DISABILITY ARISING FROM A
 COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT, WHICH SHALL BE ACCESSIBLE FROM THE  HOME  PAGE  OF
 SUCH  WEBSITE.  SUCH  SERVICES  MENUS  SHALL  INCLUDE A COMPLETE LIST OF
 AVAILABLE SERVICES FROM EACH SUCH AGENCY IN THE FOLLOWING FORMATS:
   1. CHARTS AND GRAPHS FOR VISUAL LEARNERS;
   2. DYNAMIC FLOWCHARTS FOR VISUAL THINKERS. SUCH FLOWCHARTS SHALL:
   (A) MATCH THE WEBSITE VISITOR TO THE AREAS  MOST  CLOSELY  RELATED  TO
 SUCH  WEBSITE VISITOR'S INQUIRY BY ASKING THE WEBSITE VISITOR INDIVIDUAL
 QUESTIONS AND THEN PRODUCING RESPONSES IN LOGICAL SEQUENCE; AND
   (B) ALLOW WEBSITE VISITORS TO REVISE THEIR ANSWERS  AT  ANY  POINT  IN
 ORDER TO BE PROMPTED TO THE NEXT MENU; AND
   3.  VIDEOS  FOR  AUDITORY  LEARNERS.  SUCH VIDEOS SHALL INCLUDE CLOSED
 CAPTIONS AND A FULL TRANSCRIPT OF SUCH VIDEOS FOR REVIEW  OF  REFERENCES
 OR INFORMATION MENTIONED IN SUCH VIDEOS.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04597-01-1

              

 A. 6284                             2
 
   § 2. Subdivisions 20 and 21 of section 103 of the state technology law
 are renumbered subdivisions 21 and 22, and a new subdivision 20 is added
 to read as follows:
   20.  TO  ADVISE  AND  ASSIST  THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, THE OFFICE FOR
 PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND THE OFFICE OF  MENTAL  HEALTH
 IN DEVELOPING MULTI-FORMATTED SERVICES MENUS FOR PERSONS WHO SUFFER FROM
 A DISABILITY ARISING FROM A COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION ONE
 HUNDRED SEVENTY-D OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW.
   §  3.    This  act  shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day
 after it shall have become a law.