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Home/Bills/A 4453New York · 2025–2026 Legislative Session
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A 4453: Relates to requiring a service center for independent living to be located in the county of Ontario.

New York · Assembly · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified January 8, 2026

What A 4453 does, verified January 8, 2026

The proposed law aims to expand the location of service centers for independent living in the state of New York. The centers will be required to be located in specific cities and counties, including Niagara Falls, Olean, Troy, Amsterdam, Newburgh, Corning, Ithaca, Cortland, Auburn, Watertown, Plattsburgh, Batavia, Massena, and Glens Falls. These locations will serve the Harlem community and several other counties. The law will take effect on April 1st of the next year.

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6ChapteredPending
Last action: referred to education (2026-01-07)Alert me
Recent actions2 total · showing 2
Jan. 07, 2026referred to education
Feb. 04, 2025referred to education
Latest bill textIntroduced version, February 4, 2025 · 259 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4453 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 4, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GALLAHAN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring a service center for independent living to be located in the county of Ontario The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 1124 of the education law, as 2 amended by section 28 of part B of chapter 57 of the laws of 2008, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 4. Additional service centers shall be located in the cities of 5 Niagara Falls, Olean, Troy, Amsterdam, Newburgh, Corning, Ithaca, Cort- 6 land, Auburn, Watertown, Plattsburgh, Batavia, Massena and Glens Falls, 7 the counties of Delaware, Ontario and Rockland, the county of Orange, in 8 either the city of Middletown or Port Jervis or in the town of Deerpark, 9 Greenville, Mount Hope, Warwick or Wawayanda or in the village of Gosh- 10 en, in the county of New York to serve the Harlem community, and in the 11 counties of Putnam, Sullivan and Herkimer. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding 13 the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05958-01-5 
Text of A 4453 as introduced, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions
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