STATE OF NEW YORK
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999--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. CLARK, HEVESI, LUPARDO, GLICK, SIMON, LUNSFORD,
SIMONE, KELLES, MEEKS, BURDICK, BENDETT, JENSEN, SANTABARBARA,
SEAWRIGHT, SEMPOLINSKI -- read once and referred to the Committee on
People with Disabilities -- reported and referred to the Committee on
Ways and Means -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to adding fetal
alcohol spectrum disorders to the definition of developmental disa-
bility
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 22 of
2 section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law, as amended by chapter 114 of the
3 laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
4 (1) (i) is attributable to intellectual disability, cerebral palsy,
5 epilepsy, neurological impairment, familial dysautonomia, Prader-Willi
6 syndrome or autism; or (ii) is attributable to fetal alcohol spectrum
7 disorders (FASD) including fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), partial fetal
8 alcohol syndrome (pFAS), and alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorder
9 (ARND), provided, however, that for the purposes of this section,
10 persons so considered under this clause shall:
11 (A) be over the age of seven years;
12 (B) have an FASD qualifying diagnosis by a provider;
13 (C) have an onset of such condition, disorder, or syndrome prior to
14 the age of twenty-two;
15 (D) exhibit a likelihood of indefinite continuation of such condition,
16 disorder, or syndrome; and
17 (E) such diagnosis must have a substantial impact on the person's
18 ability to complete activities of daily living;
19 § 2. This act shall take effect twenty-four months after it shall have
20 become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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