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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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911--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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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:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs (c) and (d) of subdivision 33 of section 2 of
2 the correction law, as added by chapter 93 of the laws of 2021, are
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (c) with a disability as defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision twen-
5 ty-one of section two hundred ninety-two of the executive law, which
6 includes all diagnosable conditions, including all people on the office
7 of mental health caseload currently and all people with any disability
8 (including but not limited to any intellectual, mental health, develop-
9 mental, cognitive, physical, mobility, sensorial, medical, or other
10 disability, a traumatic brain injury, or an organic brain syndrome);
11 [or] (d) who had been on the office of mental health caseload, or had a
12 diagnosis of any disability (including any intellectual, mental health,
13 developmental, cognitive, physical, sensorial, medical, or other disa-
14 bility) within the previous year; or (e) who is pregnant, in the first
15 eight weeks of the post-partum recovery period after giving birth, or
16 caring for a child in a correctional institution pursuant to subdivi-
17 sions two or three of section six hundred eleven of this chapter.
18 § 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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