Bill Text: NY A04193 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of the office of temporary and disability assistance to develop a program and training for the identification and screening for deficiencies in executive functioning.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to social services [A04193 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04193-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4193
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 1, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Social Services
        AN  ACT  to amend the social services law, in relation to identification
          and screening for deficiencies in executive functioning
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
     2  152-c to read as follows:
     3    § 152-c. Screening for deficiencies in executive functioning. 1.   The
     4  commissioner  of  the  office of temporary and disability assistance, in
     5  conjunction with the commissioner of mental health and any other  appro-
     6  priate  state  agency  which the commissioner deems necessary, shall, by
     7  June thirtieth, two thousand twenty, develop a program to train  medical
     8  professionals,  social services providers, and social services employees
     9  to identify deficiencies in executive functioning. The office shall also
    10  establish a facility or facilities for the purpose of providing  screen-
    11  ing  of individuals for such deficiencies pursuant to this section. Such
    12  screening program and facilities shall be developed in consultation with
    13  experts in the study of executive functioning and shall  utilize  rating
    14  scales  designed to evaluate the range of deficits in clinic-referred or
    15  high-risk individuals in their executive functioning.
    16    2. For the purposes of this section, the term "executive  functioning"
    17  shall  mean  the use of self-directed actions, including self-awareness,
    18  self-monitoring, inhibition, non-verbal working memory,  verbal  working
    19  memory,  planning, and problem-solving, to choose goals to select, enact
    20  and sustain actions across time toward those goals for the  maximization
    21  of one's long-term welfare.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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