Provides that a sponsoring agency must make a presentation at a public hearing before a residential facility for the disabled may be placed in a municipality.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5980
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 25, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. FITZPATRICK, TAGUE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
A. MANKTELOW -- read once and referred to the Committee on Mental
Health
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to requiring a spon-
soring agency to make a presentation to a municipality prior to
consideration of placement of a residential facility for the disabled
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision (c) of section 41.34 of the
2 mental hygiene law, as amended by chapter 1024 of the laws of 1981, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (2) Prior to forwarding a response to the sponsoring agency and the
5 commissioner, the municipality may hold a public hearing pursuant to
6 local law. Should the municipality decide to hold a public hearing, the
7 sponsoring agency shall make a presentation, using appropriate audio-vi-
8 sual technology, at which the sponsoring agency shall present the histo-
9 ry and background of the sponsoring agency, the number of employees who
10 will be working at the residential facility, the number of residents who
11 will be living in the residential facility, and an outline of any struc-
12 tural changes which will be made to existing buildings on the premises
13 where it is proposed that this facility be located.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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