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New York Senate 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 | 05/13/2025 |
| 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 | 05/29/2025 |
| 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 | 05/13/2025 |
| A07325 | Amends provisions relating to removing the exemption for school psychologists to render early intervention services, in relation to the effectiveness thereof. | Crossed Over | 05/29/2025 |
| S00028 | Eliminates provisions exempting employees with disabilities from the minimum wage law; provides that laws or minimum wage orders that authorize an employer to pay a wage that is less than the minimum wage are valid provided that under such laws or orders an employee with a disability is paid the same wage as an employee in a comparable position that does not have a disability. | In Committee | 04/08/2025 |
| S00145 | Amends Kendra's law, in relation to making the provisions thereof permanent. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00382 | Adds fetal alcohol spectrum disorders to the definition of developmental disability. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00383 | Establishes a credentialing pilot program for direct support professionals to assist and enhance the field of direct care support. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00637 | Relates to notice of transfer of sex offender to community program or residence. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00937 | Prohibits the use of aversive conditioning which includes any procedure which causes obvious signs of physical pain, including but not limited to hitting, pinching and electric shock; prohibits the use of any procedure or punishment which denies a vulnerable person reasonable sleep, shelter, bedding, bathroom facilities and any other aspect expected of a humane existence; defines terms. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00992 | Relates to care and protection of children; adds to the definition of children at risk infants who test positive for a controlled substance not prescribed by a physician, in their bloodstream or urine, are born dependent on such drugs or who demonstrate drug withdrawal symptoms, or who have been diagnosed with a condition attributable to in utero exposure to illegal drugs. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S01112 | 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. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S01197 | Requires daycare facilities to maintain evacuation and lockdown plans for children with disabilities during an emergency situation. | Crossed Over | 01/08/2025 |
| S01222 | Directs the commissioner of health to contract with an independent entity to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the existing methodology used to determine payment for early intervention screenings, evaluations, services and service coordination; directs recommendations on reimbursement methodology as well as needs under the program. | Crossed Over | 01/08/2025 |
| S01431 | 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. | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
| S02716 | 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 | 01/22/2025 |
| S03084 | Relates to requiring a service center for independent living to be located in the county of Ontario. | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |
| S03558 | 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 | 01/28/2025 |
| 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 | 01/28/2025 |
| S03996 | Amends the definition of "developmental disability" to include an inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of the disability. | In Committee | 05/21/2025 |
| S04042 | 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. | Crossed Over | 01/31/2025 |
| S04114 | Increases the frequency that visitation or inspections of facilities operated or licensed by the office for people with developmental disabilities must be made each year. | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
| S04344 | Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities to submit an updated waitlist and placement report to the senate and assembly. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| S04511 | Establishes the task force to promote the employment by state agencies of people with disabilities. | In Committee | 02/06/2025 |
| S04716 | Prohibits the withholding of state funding for service providers for people with developmental disabilities due to the receipt of certain COVID-19 federal funds. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| S04723 | 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. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| S04775 | Safeguards cash accounts for people with developmental disabilities in a facility under the control of the commissioner of mental health, the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities and the commissioner of alcoholism and substance abuse services. | Crossed Over | 02/12/2025 |
| S04834 | 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 or the accrediting body of other states or federal authorities, including the military. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| S04835 | Establishes a curriculum and task force to provide housing navigation services for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| S04837 | 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 | 02/13/2025 |
| S04838 | Establishes a pilot program to create an assistance hotline for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and complex behavioral needs. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| S04841 | 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. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| S04845 | Extends for two years the requirement for OPWDD to give a 90-day notice to the Senate, Assembly, and labor organizations of any closures or transfer of a state operated individualized residential alternative. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| S04848 | Extends provisions of law relating to the care demonstration program from March 31, 2026 until March 31, 2028. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| S04866 | Relates to the reimbursement of local services provided to persons with a disability; provides for retroactive reimbursement if local services were furnished prior to approval. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| S04868 | Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities to develop and maintain a community residence opportunities waitlist which includes the names and contact information of all individuals seeking placement in a community residence. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| S04870 | Authorizes school districts that provide transition services to allow the delivery of such transition services, including integrated employment, during school hours. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| 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 | 02/13/2025 |
| S04873 | 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 | 02/13/2025 |
| S04878 | Relates to reimbursement for residential habilitation services. | In Committee | 02/13/2025 |
| S04907 | Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities to create a staffing plan for workforce emergencies when experiencing staffing shortages. | Crossed Over | 02/14/2025 |
| S04908 | Relates to the creation of an innovative housing initiative for persons with a developmental disability who wish and are able to safely reside in such a setting; directs the division of housing and community renewal to establish guidelines for the dissemination of disclosure materials for the offer and sale of interests in residential environments formed under the innovative housing initiative; creates an exemption from certain filing requirements for residential environments that are formed as | In Committee | 02/14/2025 |
| S05073 | Relates to the burden of proof for appeal procedures for children with handicapping conditions; shifts the burden to the parent or person in parental relationship. | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| S05141 | Establishes a direct service professional credit and career ladder tuition assistance grant program to develop training programs and improve existing workforce development programs for the purpose of training direct support professionals and establishing a career ladder for individuals working with individuals with developmental disabilities. | In Committee | 02/19/2025 |
| S05406 | 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. | In Committee | 02/21/2025 |
| S05538 | Relates to automatic eligibility for early intervention services for children found to have elevated venous blood lead levels (at or above 5 mcg/dl). | Crossed Over | 02/24/2025 |
| S05702 | Permits special education services and programs for preschool children with handicapping conditions to establish reserve funds. | In Committee | 02/28/2025 |
| S06026 | Establishes a voluntary registry of individuals with autism, Alzheimer's or dementia who may be at risk of wandering away from home; creates a standardized form available that may be submitted to local law enforcement agencies by family members and caregivers of such individuals that would include identifying information and may include a photograph of the registrant. | In Committee | 05/20/2025 |
| S06115 | Requires video cameras to be placed on the entrances/exits of all facilities run by the office for people with developmental disabilities. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| S06131 | 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 | 03/05/2025 |
| S06153 | 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 | 03/05/2025 |
| S06189 | Relates to the definition of autism for purposes of the mental hygiene law. | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| S06224 | Requires the state interagency coordinating council for services to persons who are deaf, deaf-blind, or hard of hearing to develop and implement a training program to educate first responders on effective communication with deaf and hard of hearing individuals in emergency situations. | In Committee | 03/06/2025 |
| S06382 | Requires police vehicles, fire vehicles, ambulances and emergency ambulance service vehicles to be equipped with appropriate communication devices to facilitate real-time communication with deaf individuals. | In Committee | 03/12/2025 |
| S06619 | Amends provisions relating to removing the exemption for school psychologists to render early intervention services, in relation to the effectiveness thereof. | In Committee | 03/18/2025 |
| S06719 | 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. | In Committee | 03/20/2025 |
| S06780 | Requires each school district to provide interventions and special curricula for children with dyslexia or other phonological learning differences or disabilities. | In Committee | 03/24/2025 |
| S06962 | Requires the justice center to establish procedures for when to report incidents which include suspicious and unexplained injuries including broken bones, hematomas, open wounds beyond minor first aid, black eyes, swollen noses, extreme and questionable bruising, choke marks, burns, individuals found unresponsive and all deaths to a 9-1-1 operator. | In Committee | 03/27/2025 |
| S07484 | Establishes a statewide residential families committee within the developmental disabilities advisory council. | Crossed Over | 04/17/2025 |
| S07792 | 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. | In Committee | 05/06/2025 |
| S07793 | 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. | In Committee | 05/06/2025 |
| S07794 | 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 | In Committee | 05/06/2025 |
| S07826 | Directs school districts to establish parent advisory councils on special education to advise on matters that pertain to the education and safety of students with disabilities, and meet regularly with school officials to participate in the planning, development, and evaluation of the school district's special education programs. | In Committee | 05/09/2025 |
| S08040 | Requires the Commissioner of the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities to provide care for certain persons with developmental disabilities who have been admitted to hospitals or psychiatric facilities on an emergency basis. | In Committee | 05/15/2025 |
| S08290 | Relates to establishing an early intervention loan repayment program; provides funding is to be awarded regionally with 50% percent awarded to providers with a principal residence within NYC and the remaining fifty percent awarded to providers outside of NYC; provides that awards shall be given to providers who work in underserved areas for 3 consecutive years; provides loans shall be paid over a 3 year period; provides that a working group shall be established within 90 days to develop plans fo | In Committee | 05/30/2025 |