STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8627 IN SENATE February 22, 2024 ___________ 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 and the state finance law, in relation to expanding the legislative reporting requirements for the office of mental health and the office for people with developmental disabilities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision (i) of section 33.07 of the mental hygiene law, 2 as amended by chapter 37 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 (i) The office of mental health and the office for people with devel- 5 opmental disabilities shall, by the fifteenth day of December of each 6 year, commencing on December fifteenth, two thousand eleven, submit and 7 publish on its official website, a report to the governor, speaker of 8 the assembly, temporary president of the senate, chair of the assembly 9 committee on people with disabilities, chair of the senate committee on 10 disabilities, chair of the assembly committee on mental health, and the 11 chair of the senate committee on mental health, detailing how persons' 12 federal benefits are being utilized. 13 § 2. The opening paragraph of subdivision 2-a of section 95-e of the 14 state finance law, as amended by section 7 of part AA of chapter 56 of 15 the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows: 16 On or before the first day of February each year, the commissioner of 17 the office for people with developmental disabilities shall provide a 18 written report to the temporary president of the senate, speaker of the 19 assembly, chair of the senate finance committee, chair of the assembly 20 ways and means committee, chair of the senate committee on health, chair 21 of the assembly health committee, chair of the senate committee on disa- 22 bilities, chair of the assembly committee on people with disabilities, 23 the state comptroller and the public. Such report shall include how the 24 monies of the fund were utilized during the preceding calendar year, and 25 shall include: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD14452-01-4
S. 8627 2 1 § 3. The opening paragraph of subdivision 2-b of section 99-ee of the 2 state finance law, as added by chapter 125 of the laws of 2018, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 On or before the first day of February each year, the commissioner of 5 the office for people with developmental disabilities shall provide a 6 written report to the temporary president of the senate, speaker of the 7 assembly, chair of the senate finance committee, chair of the assembly 8 ways and means committee, chair of the senate committee on disabilities, 9 chair of the assembly committee on people with disabilities, chair of 10 the senate committee on mental health [and developmental disabilities], 11 chair of the assembly committee on mental health, the state comptroller 12 and the public. Such report shall include how the monies of the fund 13 were utilized during the preceding calendar year, and shall include: 14 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 15 the amendments to subdivision (i) of section 33.07 of the mental hygiene 16 law made by section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such 17 subdivision and shall be deemed repealed therewith.