A11231 • 2025

Ensures that the offices of mental health and people with developmental disabilities provide materials to individuals in different languages

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Sponsor: Jo Anne Simon
Last action: 2026-05-01
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Ensures that the offices of mental health and people with developmental disabilities provide materials to individuals in different languages

Ensures that the offices of mental health and people with developmental disabilities provide materials to individuals in different languages Ensures that the office of mental health and the office for people with developmental disabilities provide materials to individuals in English and the top six languages spoken in the state.

What This Bill Does

Ensures that the offices of mental health and people with developmental disabilities provide materials to individuals in different languages Ensures that the office of mental health and the office for people with developmental disabilities provide materials to individuals in English and the top six languages spoken in the state.

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Bill History

2026-05-01 Assembly
REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH

Official Summary Text

Ensures that the offices of mental health and people with developmental disabilities provide materials to individuals in different languages
Ensures that the office of mental health and the office for people with developmental disabilities provide materials to individuals in English and the top six languages spoken in the state.

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

                                          11231

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                       May 1, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Mental Health

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to ensuring that the
          office of mental health and the office for people  with  developmental
          disabilities provide materials to individuals in different languages

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Section 7.07 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision (i) to read as follows:
     3    (I) THE OFFICE SHALL PROVIDE ALL MATERIALS, INCLUDING BUT NOT  LIMITED
     4  TO,  DOCUMENTS, INSTRUCTIONS, APPLICATIONS AND FORMS, IN ENGLISH AND THE
     5  SIX MOST COMMON NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGES SPOKEN BY INDIVIDUALS WITH  LIMIT-
     6  ED-ENGLISH  PROFICIENCY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK, BASED ON UNITED STATES
     7  CENSUS DATA.
     8    § 2. Section 13.07 of the mental hygiene law is amended  by  adding  a
     9  new subdivision (f) to read as follows:
    10    (F)  THE OFFICE SHALL PROVIDE ALL MATERIALS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED
    11  TO, DOCUMENTS, INSTRUCTIONS, APPLICATIONS AND FORMS, IN ENGLISH AND  THE
    12  SIX  MOST COMMON NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGES SPOKEN BY INDIVIDUALS WITH LIMIT-
    13  ED-ENGLISH PROFICIENCY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK, BASED ON UNITED  STATES
    14  CENSUS DATA.
    15    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11035-01-5