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                                   2213
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 15, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- 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-i
 to read as follows:
   § 170-I. 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.
   § 2. Section 103 of the state technology law is amended  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 26 to read as follows:
   26.  TO  ADVISE  AND  ASSIST  THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, THE OFFICE FOR
 PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND THE OFFICE OF  MENTAL  HEALTH
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05031-01-5
              

 A. 2213                             2
 
 IN DEVELOPING MULTI-FORMATTED SERVICES MENUS FOR PERSONS WHO SUFFER FROM
 A DISABILITY ARISING FROM A COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION ONE
 HUNDRED SEVENTY-I OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.