Requires providers of services for the developmentally disabled to perform certain duties relating to the use of surveillance cameras in vehicles used to transport the developmentally disabled.

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S7197-2011 Actions

• May 30, 2012: REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
• May 1, 2012: REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

S7197-2011 Meetings

Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities: May 23, 2012, Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities: May 30, 2012

S7197-2011 Votes

S7197-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S7197

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to duties of providers of
services for the developmentally disabled

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To require installation of
surveillance cameras with sound capability in all state and voluntary
agency vehicles used by providers who are certified, licensed, funded
or operated to transport children or adults with mental or physical
disabilities.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
The Mental Hygiene Law is amended by adding a new section 16.25.

JUSTIFICATION:
Protection of vulnerable populations must be consistent
and enforceable. This legislation would be a critical component of
that initiative.

PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New Bill.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Significant to be determined.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the 180th day after it
shall have come a law.

S7197-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
  ________________________________________________________________________

                                    7197

                              I N  SENATE

                                 May 1, 2012
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by Sen. McDONALD -- 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:


    Section  1.  The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section
  16.25 to read as follows:

  S 16.25 SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS.
    (A) (I) ALL STATE AND VOLUNTARY AGENCY VEHICLES USED BY PROVIDERS  WHO
  ARE  CERTIFIED, LICENSED, FUNDED OR OPERATED BY THE OFFICE THAT ARE USED
  TO TRANSPORT CHILDREN OR ADULTS WITH  MENTAL  OR  PHYSICAL  DISABILITIES
  SHALL BE EQUIPPED WITH SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS WITH SOUND CAPABILITY.
    (II)  ALL  VEHICLES  USED  AT A FACILITY PROVIDING RESIDENTIAL CARE TO
  YOUTH AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH (A)  OR  (B)  OF  SUBDIVISION
  FOUR  OF  SECTION  FOUR  HUNDRED  TWELVE-A OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW TO
  TRANSPORT SUCH YOUTH SHALL BE EQUIPPED WITH  SURVEILLANCE  CAMERAS  WITH
  SOUND CAPABILITY.
    (B) ANY SCHOOL OR PRIVATE TRANSPORT COMPANY VEHICLES USED TO TRANSPORT
  CHILDREN  OR  ADULTS  WITH  MENTAL  DISABILITIES  SHALL BE EQUIPPED WITH
  SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS WITH SOUND CAPABILITIES.
    (C) ANY PROVIDER THAT  FAILS  TO  IMPLEMENT  THE  PROVISIONS  OF  THIS
  SECTION  SHALL  BE  SUBJECT TO A FINE OF ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS PER DAY OF
  NONCOMPLIANCE.
    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
  it shall have become a law.



   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD14975-04-2