Amends the definition of "developmental disability" to include an inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of the disability. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Requires the establishment of community housing waiting lists within the office of mental health service system; directs each provider of housing services in the office of mental health system to provide, on a monthly basis, the office of mental health with a list of each person referred to, admitted to, applying for, withdrawing an application for and denied admission to housing provided by such provider; requires the community-based agency performing assessments of persons with a documented mental illness to provide the office with the names of such who have been assessed and who meet the eligibility criteria for the array of funded and/or licensed housing programs; requires such office to publish such waiting lists on a monthly basis. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Provides additional discharge planning for persons being released from civil confinement including supervision, electronic monitoring, appropriate clothing, transportation, medication and a service plan. / Sponsor: GRIFFO Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Creates mental health incident review panels. / Sponsor: HUNTLEY Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Establishes the child psychiatry access project; provides that the office of mental hygiene shall establish regional child psychiatry access projects across the state to provide primary care providers with timely access to child psychiatry consultations they treat in order to assist such primary care providers in meeting the mental health needs of the children and adolescents and their families; establishes a gift for the child psychiatry access project on state personal income tax forms, the proceeds from which shall be deposited into a child psychiatry access fund for the funding of such projects. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Provides guidelines and aides in locating sites for community residential facilities; requires OPDD to conduct study on location of proposed sites. / Sponsor: KLEIN Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Makes provisions regarding safety of certain employees of the office of mental health: provides that the commissioner of the office of mental health shall direct that in outpatient programs no employee shall be required to enter the residence of a person with a serious mental illness unless said employee is accompanied by at least one other employee of the program or other appropriate person; provides that the commissioner shall also direct that all such employees shall, when they are required to enter the residence of a recipient of services, be supplied with a wireless telephone or comparable device for the purposes of emergency communications; provides that the commissioner shall direct that employees serving as intensive case managers receive annual training in safety measures and violence prevention and that the commissioner shall insure the availability of such training; provides that funds appropriated for the operation of outpatient programs shall be expended to insure that there shall be at least one intensive case manager for each twelve persons receiving such services, and that there shall be no more than twelve persons receiving services from any one assertive case management team; directs the division of the budget to cause positions to be promptly filled in order to maintain said ratios. / Sponsor: MAZIARZ Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Relates to establishing a universal child health passport; the holders of such passport universally consent to the transfer or release of pertinent records and/or information to certain groups without individual consent of the parent or guardian of such child. / Sponsor: MCDONALD Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Requires providers of services to the mentally ill or developmentally disabled to provide written notice to police of any violent residents in community residences and supportive living facilities. / Sponsor: KLEIN Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Relates to restraint of individuals in facilities under the jurisdiction of the office of mental health. / Sponsor: HUNTLEY Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Increases the frequency that visitation or inspections of facilities operated or licensed by the office of mental retardation and developmental disabilities must be made each year. / Sponsor: HUNTLEY Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Limits the proximity of newly located community residential facilities for the disabled to within a one mile radius of an existing facility. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Amends part R2 of chapter 62 of the laws of 2003, amending the mental hygiene law and the state finance law relating to the community mental health support and workforce reinvestment program and the membership of subcommittees for mental health of community service boards and the duties of such subcommittees and creating the community health and workforce reinvestment account, in relation to the effective date. / Sponsor: HUNTLEY Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Authorizes the use of a trend factor in determining payments to certain care facilities. / Sponsor: HUNTLEY Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Requires every firefighter, police officer, emergency medical technician and certified first responder to complete training on intellectual and developmental disabilities. / Sponsor: ADAMS Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Establishes peer crisis diversion homes. / Sponsor: HUNTLEY Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Relates to the treatment of property of patients of mental hygiene facilities. / Sponsor: HUNTLEY Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Relates to the community mental health support and workforce reinvestment program and the membership of subcommittees for mental health of community service boards and the duties of such subcommittees and creating the community health and workforce reinvestment account, in relation to the effective date. / Sponsor: HUNTLEY Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Establishes a program of tiered eligibility for services offered by the office of mental retardation and developmental disabilities for persons with learning disabilities and other complex neurological impairments. / Sponsor: HUNTLEY Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Provides legal assistance to youth ordered by the court into the custody of the office of children and family services and placed or committed to a state operated juvenile detention center. / Sponsor: HUNTLEY Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES