NY State Senate Bill 2023-S8627

Senate Bill S8627

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Expands the legislative reporting requirements for the office of mental health and the office for people with developmental disabilities

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
May 16, 2024	referred to mental health
May 15, 2024	delivered to assembly passed senate
Mar 21, 2024	advanced to third reading
Mar 20, 2024	2nd report cal.
Mar 19, 2024	1st report cal.687
Feb 22, 2024	referred to disabilities

Votes

- May 15, 2024 - Floor Vote
  S8627
  
  61
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  1
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: May 15, 2024
      
      aye (61)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Ashby
      
      Bailey
      
      Borrello
      
      Breslin
      
      Brisport
      
      Brouk
      
      Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick
      
      Chu
      
      Cleare
      
      Comrie
      
      Cooney
      
      Felder
      
      Fernandez
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Gonzalez
      
      Gounardes
      
      Griffo
      
      Harckham
      
      Helming
      
      Hinchey
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Jackson
      
      Kavanagh
      
      Krueger
      
      Lanza
      
      Liu
      
      Mannion
      
      Martinez
      
      Martins
      
      Mattera
      
      May
      
      Mayer
      
      Murray
      
      Myrie
      
      O'Mara
      
      Oberacker
      
      Ortt
      
      Palumbo
      
      Parker
      
      Persaud
      
      Ramos
      
      Rhoads
      
      Rivera
      
      Rolison
      
      Ryan
      
      Salazar
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Scarcella-Spanton
      
      Sepúlveda
      
      Serrano
      
      Skoufis
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stec
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Tedisco
      
      Thomas
      
      Webb
      
      Weber
      
      Weik
      
      excused (1)
      
      Walczyk
  Mar 19, 2024 - Disabilities Committee Vote
  S8627
  
  6
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  1
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Disabilities Committee Vote: Mar 19, 2024
      
      aye (6)
      
      Felder
      
      Gonzalez
      
      Mannion
      
      Persaud
      
      Scarcella-Spanton
      
      Weber
      
      aye wr (1)
      
      Ashby

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2023-S8627 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9336
Current Committee:: Assembly Mental Health
Law Section:: Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §33.07, Ment Hyg L; amd §§95-e & 99-ee, St Fin L

2023-S8627 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands the legislative reporting requirements for the office of mental health and the office for people with developmental disabilities to include the chair of the assembly committee on people with disabilities and the chair of the senate committee on disabilities.

2023-S8627 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S8627

SPONSOR: MANNION
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the mental hygiene law and the state finance law, in
relation to expanding the legislative reporting requirements for the
office of mental health and the office for people with developmental
disabilities

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

The purpose of this bill is to amend the Mental Hygiene Law and the
State Finance Law to expand the recipients of annual financial reports
from the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) to
include the Chair of the Senate Committee on Disabilities and the Chair
of the Assembly Committee on People with Disabilities.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 of this bill would add the Chair of the Senate Committee on
Disabilities and the Chair of the Assembly Committee on People with

Disabilities as recipients of annual reports from the Office of Mental
Health and OPWDD detailing how persons' federal benefits are utilized.

Section 2 of this bill would add the Chair of the Senate Committee on
Disabilities and the Chair of the Assembly Committee on People with
Disabilities as recipients of the annual report from OPWDD detailing how
the monies of the New York State autism awareness and research fund were
utilized during the preceding calendar year.

Section 3 of this bill would add the Chair of the Senate Committee on
Disabilities and the Chair of the Assembly Committee on People with
Disabilities as recipients of the annual report from OPWDD detailing how
the monies of the Down's Syndrome research fund were utilized during the
preceding calendar year.

Section 4 of this bill provides that the effective date shall take
effect immediately.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Beginning in 2021, a new Senate Committee on Disabilities and Assembly
Committee on People with Disabilities were established. The creation of
these Committees allowed for a greater focus on legislation that specif-
ically pertains to people with disabilities, including physical, devel-
opmental, and intellectual disabilities; both Committees have passed
dozens of bills, many of which have been signed into law. Dedicated
Committees increase the awareness of the long-standing issues faced by
individuals with disabilities in the State. Actions include the removal
of antiquated and offensive language in State Law, the first cost of
living adjustment in wages for Direct Support Professionals in many
years, and the legal recognition of Supported Decision-Making Agreements
as a less restrictive alternative to guardianship.

Providing the Committees with timely and accurate information, such as
annual reports, is crucial to ensure that current practice is carried
forward and that attention to disability-related issues continues in
perpetuity. This bill would require that reports from the Office for
People with Developmental Disabilities also be sent to the Chairs of the
Senate Committee on Disabilities and the Assembly Committee on People
with Disabilities.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

None

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2023-S8627 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8627
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 22, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Disabilities
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law and the  state  finance  law,  in
   relation  to  expanding the legislative reporting requirements for the
   office of mental health and the office for people  with  developmental
   disabilities

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision (i) of section 33.07 of the mental hygiene law,
 as amended by chapter 37 of the laws of 2011,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   (i)  The office of mental health and the office for people with devel-
 opmental disabilities shall, by the fifteenth day of  December  of  each
 year,  commencing on December fifteenth, two thousand eleven, submit and
 publish on its official website, a report to the  governor,  speaker  of
 the  assembly,  temporary president of the senate, CHAIR OF THE ASSEMBLY
 COMMITTEE ON PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, CHAIR OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE  ON
 DISABILITIES,  chair of the assembly committee on mental health, and the
 chair of the senate committee on mental health, detailing  how  persons'
 federal benefits are being utilized.
   §  2.  The opening paragraph of subdivision 2-a of section 95-e of the
 state finance law, as amended by section 7 of part AA of chapter  56  of
 the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
   On  or before the first day of February each year, the commissioner of
 the office for people with developmental disabilities  shall  provide  a
 written  report to the temporary president of the senate, speaker of the
 assembly, chair of the senate finance committee, chair of  the  assembly
 ways and means committee, chair of the senate committee on health, chair
 of the assembly health committee, CHAIR OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON DISA-
 BILITIES,  CHAIR  OF THE ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES,
 the state comptroller and the public.  Such report shall include how the
 monies of the fund were utilized during the preceding calendar year, and
 shall include:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14452-01-4

 S. 8627                             2
 
   § 3. The opening paragraph of subdivision 2-b of section 99-ee of  the
 state  finance  law,  as  added  by  chapter 125 of the laws of 2018, is
 amended to read as follows:
   On  or before the first day of February each year, the commissioner of
 the office for people with developmental disabilities  shall  provide  a
 written  report to the temporary president of the senate, speaker of the
 assembly, chair of the senate finance committee, chair of  the  assembly
 ways and means committee, CHAIR OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON DISABILITIES,
 CHAIR  OF  THE  ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, chair of
 the senate committee on mental health [and developmental  disabilities],
 chair  of the assembly committee on mental health, the state comptroller
 and the public. Such report shall include how the  monies  of  the  fund
 were utilized during the preceding calendar year, and shall include:
   §  4.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
 the amendments to subdivision (i) of section 33.07 of the mental hygiene
 law made by section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of  such
 subdivision and shall be deemed repealed therewith.

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John W. Mannion