Provides for adult changing tables to be placed within an enclosed restroom facility or other similar private facility that is for use by persons with disabilities who need help with diapering at commercial places of public amusement and state-owned buildings open to the public.
Requires all state and private agencies with mandatory reporters of incidents involving vulnerable people to retrain all staff on reporting to a 9-1-1 operator and the county district attorney's office and state and private websites; requires written materials to be updated.
Establishes a program of tiered eligibility for services offered by the office for people with developmental disabilities for persons with learning disabilities and other complex neurological impairments.
Requires funding for special education services and programs for preschool children with disabilities to cover joint classroom instruction for such children with disabilities and other children for the same number of hours each day.
Directs policies and procedures to be recommended to the state oversight agency for the protection of vulnerable persons receiving recovery support services.
Requires boards of visitors provide greater transparency to the public regarding such boards' activities including when it meets and providing materials to the public.
Grants a waiver in the amount of $52,000 to Adirondack Helping Hands for services rendered during the 2016--2017 school year; provides such waiver shall be allocated to costs associated with special class in an integrated setting spending for the 2016--2017 school year.
Relates to determinations of appropriate educational programs for certain students in a school district in a city having a population of one million or more.
Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities, department of health and division of the budget to authorize voluntary providers of supports and services to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to bill and be reimbursed within thirty days of billing for novel coronavirus, COVID-19 related costs and expenses, including, but not limited to, increased staffing and personal costs, personal protective equipment expenses, and increased residential cost.