STATE OF NEW YORK
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6862
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 19, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. MANNION -- 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 the term limit of
members of the autism spectrum disorders advisory board
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (b) of section 13.42 of the mental hygiene law,
2 as added by chapter 469 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 (b) Members of the board shall serve [at the pleasure of the appoint-
5 ing authority] for a term of three years, at which point such membership
6 position shall be subject to reappointment. Vacancies on the board
7 shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment once a
8 member's term has expired, or if a member resigns before his or her term
9 has expired. Members of the board shall receive no compensation, but
10 may be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the
11 performance of their duties within amounts appropriated therefor. As of
12 the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand twenty-one
13 which amended this subdivision, all appointees who are currently serving
14 on the board shall be subject to the term limit set forth pursuant to
15 this section.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
17 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11066-01-1
