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Meeting date/time:
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2/22/2016
10:00 AM
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Minutes status:
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Final
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250 Broadway - Committee Rm, 16th Fl.
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T2016-4080
| * | | | | Oversight - Medicaid Redesign Part 2 | Oversight | | Hearing Held by Committee | |
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T2016-4080
| * | | | | Oversight - Medicaid Redesign Part 2 | Oversight | | Filed, by Committee | |
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Int 0881-2015
| * | Helen K. Rosenthal | | Proposed Int. No. 881-A | Designation of disability service facilitators at city agencies. | Introduction | This bill would require the head of each city agency, in consultation with the Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities (MOPD), to designate an employee as the agency’s Disability Service Facilitator (“Facilitator”). The Facilitator would be responsible for coordinating the agency’s efforts to comply with and carry out its responsibilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other federal, state, and local laws concerning accessibility for people with disabilities. Each agency would be required to post contact information for their Facilitator on their respective websites. | Hearing Held by Committee | |
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Int 0881-2015
| * | Helen K. Rosenthal | | | Designation of disability service facilitators at city agencies. | Introduction | This bill would require the head of each city agency, in consultation with the Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities (MOPD), to designate an employee as the agency’s Disability Service Facilitator (“Facilitator”). The Facilitator would be responsible for coordinating the agency’s efforts to comply with and carry out its responsibilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other federal, state, and local laws concerning accessibility for people with disabilities. Each agency would be required to post contact information for their Facilitator on their respective websites. | Amendment Proposed by Comm | |
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Int 0881-2015
| * | Helen K. Rosenthal | | | Designation of disability service facilitators at city agencies. | Introduction | This bill would require the head of each city agency, in consultation with the Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities (MOPD), to designate an employee as the agency’s Disability Service Facilitator (“Facilitator”). The Facilitator would be responsible for coordinating the agency’s efforts to comply with and carry out its responsibilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other federal, state, and local laws concerning accessibility for people with disabilities. Each agency would be required to post contact information for their Facilitator on their respective websites. | Amended by Committee | |
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Int 0881-2015
| A | Helen K. Rosenthal | | | Designation of disability service facilitators at city agencies. | Introduction | This bill would require the head of each city agency, in consultation with the Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities (MOPD), to designate an employee as the agency’s Disability Service Facilitator (“Facilitator”). The Facilitator would be responsible for coordinating the agency’s efforts to comply with and carry out its responsibilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other federal, state, and local laws concerning accessibility for people with disabilities. Each agency would be required to post contact information for their Facilitator on their respective websites. | Approved by Committee | Pass |
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Int 0883-2015
| * | Helen K. Rosenthal | | Proposed Int. No. 883-A | Requiring advertising and other materials pertaining to public events to include information regarding accessibility for people with disabilities. | Introduction | This bill would require that all advertisements, posters, invitations, and other publicity materials for events open to the public hosted by city agencies contain information on who to contact for information regarding accessibility at the event, and a deadline for when requests for accommodations for people with disabilities must be received by the event’s organizer. Agencies are required to encourage their contractors to comply with this requirement, and community boards and community district education councils are permitted to comply if practicable. Furthermore, the bill would require that publicity materials, to the extent practicable for the particular form of media, include information regarding the availability of wheelchair accessibility, communication access real-time translation, sign language interpretation, assistive listening systems, and any other accommodations. Finally, the Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities would be required to develop and distribute a guide to assist agencies in complying with these requirements. | Hearing Held by Committee | |
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Int 0883-2015
| * | Helen K. Rosenthal | | | Requiring advertising and other materials pertaining to public events to include information regarding accessibility for people with disabilities. | Introduction | This bill would require that all advertisements, posters, invitations, and other publicity materials for events open to the public hosted by city agencies contain information on who to contact for information regarding accessibility at the event, and a deadline for when requests for accommodations for people with disabilities must be received by the event’s organizer. Agencies are required to encourage their contractors to comply with this requirement, and community boards and community district education councils are permitted to comply if practicable. Furthermore, the bill would require that publicity materials, to the extent practicable for the particular form of media, include information regarding the availability of wheelchair accessibility, communication access real-time translation, sign language interpretation, assistive listening systems, and any other accommodations. Finally, the Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities would be required to develop and distribute a guide to assist agencies in complying with these requirements. | Amendment Proposed by Comm | |
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Int 0883-2015
| * | Helen K. Rosenthal | | | Requiring advertising and other materials pertaining to public events to include information regarding accessibility for people with disabilities. | Introduction | This bill would require that all advertisements, posters, invitations, and other publicity materials for events open to the public hosted by city agencies contain information on who to contact for information regarding accessibility at the event, and a deadline for when requests for accommodations for people with disabilities must be received by the event’s organizer. Agencies are required to encourage their contractors to comply with this requirement, and community boards and community district education councils are permitted to comply if practicable. Furthermore, the bill would require that publicity materials, to the extent practicable for the particular form of media, include information regarding the availability of wheelchair accessibility, communication access real-time translation, sign language interpretation, assistive listening systems, and any other accommodations. Finally, the Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities would be required to develop and distribute a guide to assist agencies in complying with these requirements. | Amended by Committee | |
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Int 0883-2015
| A | Helen K. Rosenthal | | | Requiring advertising and other materials pertaining to public events to include information regarding accessibility for people with disabilities. | Introduction | This bill would require that all advertisements, posters, invitations, and other publicity materials for events open to the public hosted by city agencies contain information on who to contact for information regarding accessibility at the event, and a deadline for when requests for accommodations for people with disabilities must be received by the event’s organizer. Agencies are required to encourage their contractors to comply with this requirement, and community boards and community district education councils are permitted to comply if practicable. Furthermore, the bill would require that publicity materials, to the extent practicable for the particular form of media, include information regarding the availability of wheelchair accessibility, communication access real-time translation, sign language interpretation, assistive listening systems, and any other accommodations. Finally, the Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities would be required to develop and distribute a guide to assist agencies in complying with these requirements. | Approved by Committee | Pass |
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