Bill Text: NY A04557 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows chief executive officer of city of Yonkers to designate an agency on aging for purposes of county plans under community services for the elderly program (1965 federal older Americans act).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A04557 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04557-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4557

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 16, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to designated agencies in the
          city of Yonkers

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

     1    Section  1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 214 of the elder
     2  law is amended to read as follows:
     3    (a) "Designated agency" shall mean an agency which  is  designated  by
     4  the  chief executive officer of the county if there be one, or otherwise
     5  the governing board of such county, or the chief  executive  officer  of
     6  the  city  of New York or the city of Yonkers, or the governing board of
     7  an Indian tribal council; which is either a unit of county government or
     8  the city of New York or an Indian tribal organization or a private  non-
     9  profit agency, and which is the area agency on aging created pursuant to
    10  the federal older Americans act of 1965.
    11    § 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09409-01-3