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NY A 11023

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Relates to the powers of the head of the office of mental health and the head of the office for people with developmental disabilities to promulgate rules regarding communications needs of non-English speakers

New York · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Relates to the powers of the head of the office of mental health and the head of the office for people with developmental disabilities to promulgate rules regarding communications needs of non-English speakers seeking or receiving services; includes the provision of language services and documents in English and the twelve most common non-English languages spoken by individuals in New York State based on United States census data.

Introduced
Status date
Latest action
2026-05-04 — REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH
Bill type
bill
Last updated

Sponsors

  • Jo Anne Simonprimary
  • John T. McDonald IIIcosponsor
  • Andrew Hevesicosponsor
  • Alicia Hyndmancosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2026-04-22

    REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH

    referral-committee

  2. 2026-04-28

    REPORTED

  3. 2026-04-30

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING CAL.441

  4. 2026-05-04

    PASSED ASSEMBLY

    passage

  5. 2026-05-04

    DELIVERED TO SENATE

  6. 2026-05-04

    REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH

    referral-committee

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • Assembly Vote

    2026-05-04 · pass · 135-0

    Member-level votes (150)
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Carroll P: yes
    • Friend: excused
    • Lemondes: yes
    • Pheffer Amato: yes
    • Slater: yes
    • Anderson: yes
    • Carroll RC: yes
    • Gallagher: excused
    • Levenberg: yes
    • Pirozzolo: yes
    • Smith: yes
    • Angelino: yes
    • Cashman: yes
    • Gallahan: yes
    • Lucas: yes
    • Powers: yes
    • Smullen: yes
    • Bailey: yes
    • Chandler-Waterm: yes
    • Gandolfo: yes
    • Lunsford: yes
    • Pretlow: yes
    • Solages: yes
    • Barclay: yes
    • Chang: yes
    • Gibbs: yes
    • Lupardo: yes
    • Ra: yes
    • Steck: yes
    • Barrett: yes
    • Chludzinski: yes
    • Giglio: yes
    • Magnarelli: yes
    • Raga: excused
    • Stern: yes
    • Beephan: yes
    • Clark: yes
    • Glick: yes
    • Maher: excused
    • Rajkumar: yes
    • Stirpe: yes
    • Bendett: yes
    • Colton: yes
    • Gonzalez-Rojas: excused
    • Manktelow: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Tague: yes
    • Benedetto: yes
    • Conrad: yes
    • Gray: yes
    • McDonald: yes
    • Reilly: yes
    • Tannousis: yes
    • Berger: yes
    • Cook: excused
    • Griffin: yes
    • McDonough: excused
    • Reyes: yes
    • Tapia: yes
    • Bichotte Hermel: excused
    • Cruz: yes
    • Hawley: yes
    • McMahon: yes
    • Rivera: yes
    • Taylor: yes
    • Blankenbush: yes
    • Cunningham: yes
    • Hevesi: yes
    • Meeks: excused
    • Romero: yes
    • Torres: yes
    • Blumencranz: yes
    • Dais: yes
    • Hooks: yes
    • Mikulin: yes
    • Rosenthal: yes
    • Valdez: yes
    • Bologna: excused
    • Davila: yes
    • Hunter: yes
    • Miller: yes
    • Rozic: yes
    • Vanel: yes
    • Bores: excused
    • De Los Santos: yes
    • Hyndman: yes
    • Mitaynes: yes
    • Santabarbara: yes
    • Walker: yes
    • Brabenec: yes
    • DeStefano: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Molitor: yes
    • Sayegh: excused
    • Walsh: yes
    • Braunstein: yes
    • Dilan: yes
    • Jacobson: yes
    • Moreno: yes
    • Schiavoni: yes
    • Weprin: yes
    • Bronson: yes
    • Dinowitz: yes
    • Jensen: yes
    • Morinello: yes
    • Seawright: yes
    • Wieder: yes
    • Brook-Krasny: yes
    • DiPietro: yes
    • Kassay: yes
    • Norber: yes
    • Sempolinski: yes
    • Williams: yes
    • Brown EA: yes
    • Durso: yes
    • Kay: yes
    • Novakhov: excused
    • Septimo: yes
    • Woerner: yes
    • Brown K: yes
    • Eachus: yes
    • Kelles: yes
    • O'Pharrow: yes
    • Shimsky: yes
    • Wright: yes
    • Burdick: yes
    • Eichenstein: yes
    • Kim: yes
    • Otis: yes
    • Shrestha: yes
    • Yeger: yes
    • Burke: yes
    • Fall: yes
    • Lasher: excused
    • Palmesano: yes
    • Simon: yes
    • Zaccaro: yes
    • Burroughs: yes
    • Fitzpatrick: excused
    • Lavine: yes
    • Paulin: yes
    • Simone: yes
    • Zinerman: yes
    • Buttenschon: yes
    • Forrest: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Peoples-Stokes: yes
    • Simpson: yes
    • Mr. Speaker: yes

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