STATE OF NEW YORK
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1219
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 6, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop-
mental Disabilities
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to adding Prader-
Willi syndrome to the definition of developmental disability
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 section 4 of part
3 MM of chapter 58 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
4 (1) is attributable to intellectual disability, cerebral palsy,
5 epilepsy, neurological impairment, familial dysautonomia, Prader-Willi
6 syndrome or autism;
7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07000-01-7
