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New York Assembly People with Disabilities Committee
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| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Referral Date |
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| A00033 | Establishes the task force to promote the employment by state agencies of people with disabilities. | Crossed Over | 01/08/2025 |
| A00226 | Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities to create a staffing plan for workforce emergencies when experiencing staffing shortages. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00868 | Requires the office of temporary and disability assistance to provide an informational notice to supportive housing tenants which contains information about a supportive housing tenant's rights as a tenant, information about their building and other related information. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A00999 | Adds fetal alcohol spectrum disorders to the definition of developmental disability. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| A01130 | Establishes the statewide group home families working group; provides that duties include informing and advising the commissioner as to matters of importance for persons with developmental disabilities residing in group homes and their families and guardians, providing recommendations for statewide and regional priorities and goals for individuals residing in group homes and families and guardians of individuals residing in group homes, advising the commissioner on such other matters related to | Crossed Over | 01/09/2025 |
| A03402 | Creates the New York state autism council; establishes such council shall consist of sixteen members; establishes the duties of the council. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| A03410 | Requires the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities to work with an independent firm to allow such firm to conduct a study on the OPWDD eligibility criteria and determinations following diagnostic evaluations by a licensed professional and distribution of services. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
| A03530 | 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. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| A03548 | Amends the definition of "developmental disability" to include an inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of the disability. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| A03556 | Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities to submit an updated waitlist and placement report to the senate and assembly. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| A03563 | Relates to the definition of autism for purposes of the mental hygiene law. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| A03572 | Relates to adding spina bifida to the definition of developmental disability in the mental hygiene law. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| A04138 | Authorizes the justice center to create a central registry for employees for all current and prospective agencies, sponsoring agencies or other providers of services that are certified, authorized, approved or funded through contract by the office for people with developmental disabilities to streamline criminal background checks. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
| A04494 | Enacts the "employment first choice act" to ensure that an individual with developmental disabilities in a nonintegrated setting shall have the right to remain in such a setting under certain circumstances. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| A04834 | Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities to produce and publish a report to assess the staffing and other issues causing the continued displacement of individuals with developmental disabilities from various state-operated institutions under the jurisdiction of the office for people with developmental disabilities. | Crossed Over | 02/06/2025 |
| A04835 | Directs the commissioner of health to approve courses for eligible physicians, nurses and other staff that covers risk management strategies in emergency department visits for individuals with a developmental or intellectual disability; provides a premium reduction for physicians who complete such risk management strategies course. | In Committee | 02/06/2025 |
| A04838 | Establishes a direct support professional worker registry of persons who have successfully completed a direct support professional worker education or training program approved by the commissioner of mental health. | In Committee | 02/06/2025 |
| A04839 | Requires OPWDD to purchase and provide essential personal protection equipment to all direct support professionals, care recipients and group home providers in the event of a declaration of a state emergency that relates to public health. | In Committee | 02/06/2025 |
| A06021 | Establishes the "blue-ribbon commission on the future of New York state's service delivery system for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities act" to conduct a study and prepare a report to examine, evaluate and make recommendations for systemic reforms to ensure a sustainable set of supports and services that meets the evolving needs of all individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof. | Crossed Over | 02/25/2025 |
| A07363 | Relates to protecting the communication rights of individuals with disabilities; provides that each person with a disability has the right to communicate in their preferred manner. | Crossed Over | 03/25/2025 |
| A07465 | Directs the independent developmental disability ombudsperson program to establish a service delivery structure based in New York state that includes a toll-free telephone hotline, an interactive website, and availability of in-person, telephone and email access to ombudsman program staff or volunteers; to provide assistance for navigating and completing processes; to assist individuals in filing and preparing appeals; to assist individuals with any problems encountered; and to educate individua | In Committee | 03/28/2025 |
| A07560 | Requires the developmental disabilities advisory council to submit an annual report to the governor, temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly on the activities of the council, and to make such report public. | Crossed Over | 04/01/2025 |
| A07604 | Establishes a direct support wage enhancement to employees that provide direct care support or any other form of treatment, to individuals with developmental disabilities and whose income is less than $125,000. | In Committee | 04/01/2025 |
| A07799 | Provides for due process procedures for persons who currently are placed in New York state education department approved out-of-state residential schools pursuant to the education law and the federal individuals with disabilities education act who have received an offer for transitional care or certain care prior to becoming eligible to receive such care. | In Committee | 04/11/2025 |
| A08020 | Establishes a pilot program in partnership with a nonprofit organization to improve equity and efficiency in housing for people with developmental disabilities by encouraging shared housing. | In Committee | 04/22/2025 |
| A08288 | Establishes a comprehensive training program for care managers employed by care coordination organizations; mandates care managers complete the training before working with clients. | In Committee | 05/09/2025 |
| A08351 | Establishes the right of non-speaking developmentally and otherwise disabled individuals to advocate for themselves in educational, medical, legal, and other decisions by using alternative forms of communication, such as spelling boards, typing-based communication, sign language, and speech-generating devices. | In Committee | 05/13/2025 |
| A08608 | Establishes a statewide residential families committee within the developmental disabilities advisory council. | In Committee | 05/22/2025 |
| A08772 | Establishes the disability access accountability commission; provides membership, duties, and powers to the commission. | In Committee | 06/02/2025 |
| A08982 | Requires a residential transition conference when a person with developmental disabilities transfers from one program run by a covered operator to another program run by a covered operator; defines terms; specifies certain persons who shall attend such conference; requires covered operators to complete a form summarizing such conference and to file the form with the office for people with developmental disabilities. | In Committee | 08/13/2025 |
| S03571 | Names an office for people with developmental disabilities facility located in the borough of Manhattan the "Willie Mae 'Goody' Goodman Community Facility". | Crossed Over | 03/25/2025 |
| S04871 | Directs the independent developmental disability ombudsperson program to establish a service delivery structure based in New York state that includes a toll-free telephone hotline, an interactive website, and availability of in-person, telephone and email access to ombudsperson program staff or volunteers; to provide assistance for navigating and completing processes; to assist individuals in filing and preparing appeals; to assist individuals with any problems encountered; and to educate indivi | Crossed Over | 06/10/2025 |
| S04907 | Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities to create a staffing plan for workforce emergencies when experiencing staffing shortages. | Crossed Over | 03/12/2025 |
| S07484 | Establishes a statewide residential families committee within the developmental disabilities advisory council. | Crossed Over | 06/05/2025 |
| S08407 | Relates to sanctions by the office of the Medicaid inspector general with regard to substantiated reports of abuse or neglect which are no longer subject to amendment or appeal. | Crossed Over | 06/12/2025 |