Bill Text: NY S01470 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities, the commissioner of education, the commissioner of health, the commissioner of the office of children and family services and the commissioner of mental health to study and report the costs to the state for the early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder and the long-term treatment for individuals with autism spectrum disorder.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-10 - PRINT NUMBER 1470A [S01470 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S01470-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        1470--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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 direct the commissioner of the office for people with develop-
         mental disabilities to study and report upon the cost to the state for
         the  early diagnosis and long-term treatment of autism spectrum disor-
         der
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  The  commissioner  of the office for people with develop-
    2  mental disabilities, the commissioner of education, the commissioner  of
    3  health,  the  commissioner of the office of children and family services
    4  and the commissioner  of  mental  health  shall  cause  a  study  to  be
    5  performed  on  the  costs to the state for the early diagnosis of autism
    6  spectrum disorder and the long-term treatment of individuals with autism
    7  spectrum disorder.  Such study shall include, but not be limited  to,  a
    8  projected  estimate  of  future  cost to the state associated with state
    9  services that will be needed to accommodate the growth in the number  of
   10  individuals being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.
   11    S  2.  On  or before April 1, 2017, the commissioner of the office for
   12  people with developmental disabilities, the commissioner  of  education,
   13  the  commissioner  of health, the commissioner of the office of children
   14  and family services and the commissioner of mental health shall  deliver
   15  a copy of the findings of the study conducted pursuant to section one of
   16  this  act  and  any  legislative  recommendations  he or she deems to be
   17  necessary to the governor, the temporary president of  the  senate,  the
   18  speaker  of  the  assembly,  the chair of the mental health and develop-
   19  mental disabilities committee of the senate, and the chair of the mental
   20  health committee of the assembly.
   21    S 3. 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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