STATE OF NEW YORK
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1866
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 17, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. BROUK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health
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) is attributable to intellectual disability, cerebral palsy,
5 epilepsy, neurological impairment, familial dysautonomia, Prader-Willi
6 syndrome, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders including fetal alcohol
7 syndrome, partial fetal alcohol syndrome (pFAS), and alcohol-related
8 neurodevelopmental disorder (ARND), or autism;
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04554-01-3
