Bill Text: NY S00186 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Amends the definition of "developmental disability" to include an inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of the disability.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-12 - PRINT NUMBER 186A [S00186 Detail]
Download: New_York-2009-S00186-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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186--A
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
(PREFILED)
January 7, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. MORAHAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop-
mental Disabilities -- recommitted to the Committee on Mental Health
and Developmental Disabilities in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec.
8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation 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. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 22 of section 1.03 of the
2 mental hygiene law, as amended by chapter 255 of the laws of 2002, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (d) constitutes a substantial handicap to such person's ability to
5 function normally in society OR RESULTS IN AN INABILITY TO ENGAGE IN ANY
6 SUBSTANTIAL GAINFUL ACTIVITY BY REASON OF THE DISABILITY DESCRIBED IN
7 SUBPARAGRAPH ONE OR TWO OF PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
8 S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
9 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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