Bill Text: NY A04016 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes residents of assisted living programs to receive hospice services, subject to the availability of federal financial participation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-13 - substituted by s1349 [A04016 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A04016-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4016 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 8, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RAGA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law and the social services law, in relation to authorizing residents of assisted living programs to receive hospice services 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 4012 of the public health law, as 2 added by a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the public health law 3 and the social services law relating to authorizing residents of 4 assisted living programs to receive hospice services, as proposed in 5 legislative bills numbers S. 7626 and A. 8006, is amended to read as 6 follows: 7 4. Eligible individuals shall be permitted to receive hospice services 8 from a provider under this article while continuing to reside in an 9 adult care facility under title two of article seven of the social 10 services law and enrolled in the assisted living program, subject to the 11 availability of federal financial participation. The commissioner shall 12 make regulations and take other actions reasonably necessary and appro- 13 priate to implement this subdivision. 14 § 2. Subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (d) of subdivision 2 of section 15 461-l of the social services law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 16 2022 amending the public health law and the social services law relating 17 to authorizing residents of assisted living programs to receive hospice 18 services, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7626 and A. 8006, 19 is amended to read as follows: 20 (iv) Eligible individuals shall be permitted to receive hospice 21 services from a provider under article forty of the public health law 22 while continuing to reside in an adult care facility under this title 23 and enrolled in the assisted living program, subject to the availability 24 of federal financial participation. The commissioner shall make regu- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04186-01-3A. 4016 2 1 lations and take other actions reasonably necessary and appropriate to 2 implement this subparagraph. 3 § 3. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 4 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the public health law 5 and the social services law relating to authorizing residents of 6 assisted living programs to receive hospice services, as proposed in 7 legislative bills numbers S. 7626 and A. 8006, takes effect.