Requires the developmental disabilities advisory council to submit an annual comprehensive summary of information about its activities to the office for people with developmental disabilities' website, the official text

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   8799
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 8, 2026
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  FAHY  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in  relation  to  requiring  the
   developmental  disabilities  advisory  council  to  submit  an  annual
   comprehensive summary of  information  about  its  activities  to  the
   office for people with developmental disabilities' website

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision (h) of section 13.05 of the mental hygiene law,
 as added by a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending  the  mental  hygiene
 law  relating to requiring the developmental disabilities advisory coun-
 cil to submit an annual report on the  activities  of  the  council,  as
 proposed  in legislative bills numbers S. 7793 and A. 7560-A, is amended
 to read as follows:
   (h) The developmental disabilities advisory council  shall  [submit  a
 report yearly to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and
 the  speaker  of  the  assembly  on the activities of the council.  Such
 report shall be delivered by the thirty-first of December of each calen-
 dar year and shall be posted] PUBLISH A COMPREHENSIVE SUMMARY OF  INFOR-
 MATION  ABOUT  THEIR  ACTIVITIES  to the [department's] OFFICE'S website
 ANNUALLY, IN AN ACCESSIBLE FORMAT.    Such  [report]  INFORMATION  shall
 include, at minimum:
   1.  actions  taken  to  foster  public understanding and acceptance of
 developmental disabilities;
   2. recommendations made  to  the  commissioner  related  to  statewide
 priorities  and  goals  for  services for individuals with developmental
 disabilities, and the implementation of the statewide comprehensive plan
 as required under section 5.07 of this chapter; and
   3. any other actions taken by the council related to their duties.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
 manner  as a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the mental hygiene law
 relating to requiring the developmental disabilities advisory council to
 submit an annual report on the activities of the council, as proposed in
 legislative bills numbers S. 7793 and A. 7560-A, takes effect.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11241-04-6