---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to the establishment of the care demonstration program"
description: "Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities to establish the care demonstration program to ensure continuity of care for people with developmental disabilities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "S 5681"
citation: "New York S 5681 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["ORTT"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-04-25"
last_action: "2017-12-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db696b60-f9f7-43ef-b9a2-10311c7ea0e6"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/S5681"
source_hash: "7ae6604c1b8a9138786ec51093520df3090435d03f37d60f619c0b9520680cbe"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 5681 (2017-2018) — Relates to the establishment of the care demonstration program

Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities to establish the care demonstration program to ensure continuity of care for people with developmental disabilities.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S5681 HTML** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S5681&term=2017&Text=Y)
2. **S5681 PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2017/S5681)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **143–0** (pass) · lower
- Mental Health And Developmental Disabilities Vote — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote — **63–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- ORTT — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-04-25** REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-16** 1ST REPORT CAL.951
- **2017-05-17** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2017-05-22** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2017-06-12** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2017-06-12** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2017-06-12** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-13** SUBSTITUTED FOR A7399A
- **2017-06-13** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.158
- **2017-06-13** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2017-06-13** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2017-12-06** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2017-12-18** SIGNED CHAP.491 `executive-signature`
- **2017-12-18** APPROVAL MEMO.57

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/db696b60-f9f7-43ef-b9a2-10311c7ea0e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).