Bill Text: NY A00241 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 241

Bill Title: Relates to reporting unmet need, which is the number of eligible individuals seeking participation in a program or service who are not receiving such program or service due to insufficient resources or capacity.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A00241 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00241-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         241--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. EICHENSTEIN, BURDICK, SIMON, LUNSFORD -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on Aging --  committee  discharged,
          bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said
          committee

        AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to reporting unmet  need  for
          programs and services for the aging

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 203 of the elder law is amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
     3    2-a.  The office shall collect from each area agency on aging informa-
     4  tion concerning the unmet need for each program or  service  offered  by
     5  the  area  agency on aging.  For the purposes of this subdivision, unmet
     6  need shall be defined as the  number  of  eligible  individuals  seeking
     7  participation  in  a  program  or service and who are not receiving such
     8  program or service due to insufficient resources or capacity. The office
     9  shall provide a comprehensive report on the unmet need for each  program
    10  or  service  throughout  the  state  to  the speaker of the assembly and
    11  temporary president of the senate no later than December thirty-first of
    12  each year.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00147-02-3