New York Assembly Bill A06904 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6904 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY March 18, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. McMAHON, SHIMSKY, BURROUGHS, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to adding Down syndrome to the definition of developmental disability The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 22 of 2 section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law, as amended by chapter 114 of the 3 laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows: 4 (1) is attributable to intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, 5 epilepsy, neurological impairment, familial dysautonomia, Prader-Willi 6 syndrome, Down syndrome, or autism; 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07305-01-5