STATE OF NEW YORK
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6115
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 5, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Disabilities
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to requiring video
cameras in facilities operated by the office for people with develop-
mental disabilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 13.25 of the mental hygiene law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision (c) to read as follows:
3 (c) Facilities operated by the office, including group homes, residen-
4 tial homes, inpatient facilities and all other facilities under this
5 title shall install video cameras at all entrances and exits. The
6 commissioner, in consultation with the state police, shall develop a
7 system for maintaining such recorded images.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day
9 after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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