Assembly Bill A911A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Clarifies the definition of persons with a disability for purposes of the definition of special populations

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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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Bill Amendments

2025-A911 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4269
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2, Cor L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A7533, S6977

2025-A911 - Summary

Clarifies the definition of persons with a disability for purposes of the definition of special populations to include people with a mental health diagnosis, people on the office of mental health caseload, people with an intellectual, developmental or cognitive diagnosis, people with physical disability or mobility impairment, and people with a sensorial disability diagnosis.

2025-A911 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    911
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. FORREST -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to clarifying the  defi-
   nition  of persons with a disability for purposes of the definition of
   special populations

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (c)  of  subdivision  33  of  section 2 of the
 correction law, as added by chapter 93 of the laws of 2021,  is  amended
 to read as follows:
   (c) with a disability as defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision twen-
 ty-one of section two hundred ninety-two of the executive law, INCLUDING
 BUT  NOT  LIMITED  TO:  (I) ALL PEOPLE WITH ANY MENTAL HEALTH DIAGNOSIS;
 (II) ALL PEOPLE ON THE OFFICE OF MENTAL  HEALTH  CASELOAD  CURRENTLY  OR
 WITHIN  THE  PAST YEAR; (III) ALL PEOPLE WITH ANY INTELLECTUAL, DEVELOP-
 MENTAL, OR COGNITIVE DIAGNOSIS; (IV) ALL PEOPLE WITH ANY PHYSICAL  DISA-
 BILITY  DIAGNOSIS  OR  MOBILITY  IMPAIRMENT; AND (V) ALL PEOPLE WITH ANY
 SENSORIAL DISABILITY DIAGNOSIS; or
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02084-01-5

2025-A911A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4269
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2, Cor L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A7533, S6977

2025-A911A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Clarifies the definition of persons with a disability for purposes of the definition of special populations to include people with a mental health diagnosis, people on the office of mental health caseload, people with an intellectual, developmental or cognitive diagnosis, people with physical disability or mobility impairment, and people with a sensorial disability diagnosis.

2025-A911A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  911--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. FORREST -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Correction  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to clarifying the defi-
   nition of persons with a disability for purposes of the definition  of
   special populations
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraphs (c) and (d) of subdivision 33 of  section  2  of
 the  correction  law,  as  added  by chapter 93 of the laws of 2021, are
 amended to read as follows:
   (c) with a disability as defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision twen-
 ty-one of section two hundred ninety-two of  the  executive  law,  WHICH
 INCLUDES  ALL DIAGNOSABLE CONDITIONS, INCLUDING ALL PEOPLE ON THE OFFICE
 OF  MENTAL  HEALTH CASELOAD CURRENTLY AND ALL PEOPLE WITH ANY DISABILITY
 (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY INTELLECTUAL, MENTAL HEALTH,  DEVELOP-
 MENTAL,  COGNITIVE,  PHYSICAL,  MOBILITY,  SENSORIAL,  MEDICAL, OR OTHER
 DISABILITY, A TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY, OR  AN  ORGANIC  BRAIN  SYNDROME);
 [or]  (d) WHO HAD BEEN ON THE OFFICE OF MENTAL HEALTH CASELOAD, OR HAD A
 DIAGNOSIS  OF ANY DISABILITY (INCLUDING ANY INTELLECTUAL, MENTAL HEALTH,
 DEVELOPMENTAL, COGNITIVE, PHYSICAL, SENSORIAL, MEDICAL, OR  OTHER  DISA-
 BILITY)  WITHIN  THE PREVIOUS YEAR; OR (E) who is pregnant, in the first
 eight weeks of the post-partum recovery period after  giving  birth,  or
 caring  for  a  child in a correctional institution pursuant to subdivi-
 sions two or three of section six hundred eleven of this chapter.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02084-03-5

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