STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3534 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 3, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the Committee on People with 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- 13 three which amended this subdivision, all appointees who are currently 14 serving on the board shall be subject to the term limit set forth pursu- 15 ant to 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. LBD04989-01-3