Bill Text: NY A04252 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes and directs the office for the aging to conduct a study of fees and charges assessed to residents of assisted living facilities and to make recommendations to the legislature.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-03-21 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [A04252 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A04252-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4252--B 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 29, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DenDEKKER, TITONE, COOK, MOSLEY, CAHILL, ROBIN- SON, HOOPER, LUPINACCI -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ARROYO, GLICK, MAGEE, PERRY, SKARTADOS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Aging -- recommitted to the Committee on Aging in accord- ance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee -- again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT authorizing the study of fees and charges assessed to residents of assisted living facilities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The department of health in conjunction with the office for 2 the aging is authorized and directed to study the fees and charges being 3 assessed to residents of assisted living facilities. Specifically, such 4 study shall review the rate of increase of the fees and charges being 5 assessed to residents of assisted living facilities. 6 § 2. On or before April 1, 2018, the commissioner of the department of 7 health and the director of the office for the aging shall deliver a copy 8 of the findings of the study conducted pursuant to section one of this 9 act and any legislative recommendations they deem to be necessary to the 10 governor, the temporary president of the senate, and the speaker of the 11 assembly. 12 § 3. The commissioner of the department of health and the director of 13 the office for the aging may request, and are authorized to receive, any 14 information from any state agencies or assisted living facilities that 15 is relevant and material to the completion of this study and report. 16 Such information received by the department of health and the office for 17 the aging shall be subject to the same requirements for confidentiality 18 and limitations on use, if any, as are applicable to each such state 19 agency's use of such information. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01700-04-6