Bill Text: NY S01823 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires providers of residential services to developmentally disabled children to have surveillance cameras in the common areas of their residential facilities.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES [S01823 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S01823-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          1823
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 16, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop-
          mental Disabilities
        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to duties of provid-
          ers of services for the developmentally disabled
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section
     2  16.39 to read as follows:
     3  § 16.39 Surveillance cameras.
     4    (a) (i) Surveillance cameras with sound capability shall be  installed
     5  in  all  public  common  areas including, but not limited to, all common
     6  living areas, dining areas, hallways, classrooms and time-out  rooms  in
     7  all  group  homes,  residential  and  day schools and programs licensed,
     8  certified, funded or operated by the office which provide  services  for
     9  children or adults with mental or physical disabilities.
    10    (ii) All public common areas including, but not limited to, all common
    11  living areas, dining areas, hallways, classrooms and time-out rooms of a
    12  facility providing residential care to youth which is operated, licensed
    13  or  certified by the office of children and family services, or which is
    14  subject to the  supervision  of  such  office  shall  be  equipped  with
    15  surveillance cameras with sound capability.
    16    (b)  In all residential facilities statewide, for children with mental
    17  disabilities certified, licensed, funded  or  operated  by  the  office,
    18  surveillance  cameras may be placed in a child's, age thirteen or young-
    19  er, room at the request of and with the consent of the child's parent or
    20  guardian and only if the child is in a single occupancy bedroom.
    21    (c) Any provider that  fails  to  implement  the  provisions  of  this
    22  section  shall be subjected to a fine of one thousand dollars per day of
    23  noncompliances.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
    25  law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04321-01-9
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