Clarifies the definition of persons with a disability for purposes of the definition of special populations to include people with a mental health diagnosis, people on the office of mental health caseload, people with an intellectual, developmental or cognitive diagnosis, people with physical disability or mobility impairment, and people with a sensorial disability diagnosis.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6977
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 16, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to clarifying the defi-
nition of persons with a disability for purposes of the definition of
special populations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 33 of section 2 of the
2 correction law, as added by chapter 93 of the laws of 2021, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 (c) with a disability as defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision twen-
5 ty-one of section two hundred ninety-two of the executive law, including
6 but not limited to: (i) all people with any mental health diagnosis;
7 (ii) all people on the office of mental health caseload currently or
8 within the past year; (iii) all people with any intellectual, develop-
9 mental, or cognitive diagnosis; (iv) all people with any physical disa-
10 bility diagnosis or mobility impairment; and (v) all people with any
11 sensorial disability diagnosis; or
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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