Bill Text: NY A00544 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the state office for the aging to review programs addressing the needs of the aging veteran population.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-08-03 - signed chap.263 [A00544 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A00544-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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544
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 5, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ, CASTELLI, ROBINSON, PHEFFER, LUPARDO,
CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Aging
AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to requiring the state office
for the aging to review programs addressing the needs of the aging
veteran population
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 13 and 14 of section 202 of the elder law,
2 subdivision 13 as amended and subdivision 14 as added by section 24-d of
3 part B of chapter 58 of the laws of 2007 and paragraph (a) of subdivi-
4 sion 14 as amended by chapter 319 of the laws of 2010, are amended and a
5 new subdivision 15 is added to read as follows:
6 13. to conduct a program of education and information on age discrimi-
7 nation and the preparation and filing of complaints relating to persons
8 sixty years of age or older; [and]
9 14. to, in cooperation with the department of state:
10 (a) prepare or cause to be prepared and made available to cities,
11 towns and villages model zoning and planning guidelines that foster
12 age-integrated communities including provisions to allow for accessory
13 senior citizen units in areas zoned for single family residences and for
14 mixed-use development accommodating senior citizen residential housing;
15 and
16 (b) make recommendations, in consultation with the division of housing
17 and community renewal, to the governor and legislature for assisting
18 mixed-use age-integrated housing development or redevelopment demon-
19 stration projects in urban, suburban and rural areas of the state. The
20 director of the office for the aging and secretary of state shall estab-
21 lish an advisory committee for purposes of this subdivision. Such
22 committee shall include, but not be limited to, top representatives of
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 local government, senior citizen organizations, developers, senior
2 service providers and planners[.]; AND
3 15. TO PERIODICALLY, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE STATE DIRECTOR OF VETER-
4 AN'S AFFAIRS, REVIEW THE PROGRAMS OPERATED BY THE OFFICE TO ENSURE THAT
5 THE NEEDS OF THE STATE'S AGING VETERAN POPULATION ARE BEING MET AND TO
6 DEVELOP IMPROVEMENTS TO PROGRAMS TO MEET SUCH NEEDS.
7 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
