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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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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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

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
              

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