Senate Bill S145

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Makes the provisions of Kendra's law permanent

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Disabilities 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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2025-S145 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Disabilities
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene
Laws Affected:
Amd §18, Chap 408 of 1999
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S8856
2023-2024: S3147

2025-S145 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Amends Kendra's law, in relation to making the provisions thereof permanent.

2025-S145 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    145
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  PALUMBO, BORRELLO, OBERACKER, ORTT, STEC, WEIK --
   read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
   the Committee on Disabilities
 
 AN ACT to amend Kendra's law, in relation to making the provisions ther-
   eof permanent

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 18 of chapter 408 of the laws of 1999, constituting
 Kendra's law, as amended by section 1 of subpart H of part UU of chapter
 56 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   § 18. This act shall take effect immediately,  provided  that  section
 fifteen  of this act shall take effect April 1, 2000, provided, further,
 that subdivision (e) of section 9.60 of the mental hygiene law as  added
 by  section  six  of  this act shall be effective 90 days after this act
 shall become law[; and that this act shall expire and be deemed repealed
 June 30, 2027].
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00617-01-5

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