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                                   4834
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on People with Disabilities
 
 AN ACT relating to assessing the staffing and other issues  causing  the
   continued  displacement of individuals with developmental disabilities
   from various state-operated institutions under the jurisdiction of 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. Legislative intent. The legislature finds and declares that
 the  continued  displacement  of individuals with disabilities caused by
 the closure or suspension of services at various  state-operated  insti-
 tutions  due to staffing and other issues must be assessed and remedied.
 The legislature further finds that in  order  to  assess  these  ongoing
 staffing issues, the commissioner of the office for people with develop-
 mental disabilities shall submit a report to the governor, the temporary
 president  of  the  senate, and the speaker of the assembly on or before
 December 31, 2025 detailing the  number  and  nature  of  state-operated
 residential  facilities serving individuals with developmental disabili-
 ties, a census of staff delivering services at state-operated facilities
 to individuals with developmental disabilities and  the  hiring  of  new
 staff at state-operated residential facilities.
   §  2.  Such report shall include, but not be limited to, the following
 information:
   1. the total number of full-time equivalent staff by position or title
 for the office for people with developmental disabilities as of April 1,
 2025;
   2. the 2025-2026 fiscal year full-time  equivalent  budgeted  staffing
 level  by position or title for the office for people with developmental
 disabilities as of April 1, 2025;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   3. the number  of  full-time  equivalent  staff  that  separated  from
 service  between  April 1, 2025 and December 1, 2025, including a break-
 down of each staff member's job title and job location;
   4.  the  number of staff hired from April 1, 2025 to December 1, 2025,
 including a breakdown of each staff member's job title and job location;
   5. the number of unfilled and vacant positions as of December 1,  2025
 at each state-operated facility;
   6. the number of full-time equivalent staff as of December 1, 2025;
   7.  the  steps taken by the office for people with developmental disa-
 bilities to recruit staff for new and vacant positions;
   8. a list of state-operated residential  facilities  operated  by  the
 office for people with developmental disabilities detailing which facil-
 ities  are  owned  or  leased, and the lease end date, if any. Such list
 shall include whether such facilities are  operational,  have  suspended
 services  or have been closed and the proposed date at which any facili-
 ties that have suspended services or have been closed are  projected  to
 be re-opened to serve individuals with developmental disabilities;
   9.  the  number  of  eligible  clients with developmental disabilities
 currently on a waiting list to receive care; and
   10. any other information the commissioner of the  office  for  people
 with  developmental disabilities deems necessary and appropriate for the
 legislature to assess the ability of the office for people with develop-
 mental disabilities to  deliver  needed  services  to  individuals  with
 developmental  disabilities  or to reduce the number of individuals with
 developmental disabilities awaiting placement for services in  a  state-
 operated residential facility.
   §  3.  Such report shall be posted for public inspection on the office
 for people with developmental disabilities' website.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.