Bill Text: NY A06086 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to increasing the availability of adult day care programs in counties with a population of 130,000 and less than 140,000.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-08 - enacting clause stricken [A06086 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A06086-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6086 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y March 4, 2011 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GOODELL -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Health AN ACT to increase the availability of adult day health care programs; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration there- of THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, 2 an adult home, as defined by subdivision twenty-five of section two of 3 the social services law, possessing a valid operating certificate pursu- 4 ant to title two of article seven of the social services law and located 5 in a county with a population of more than one hundred thirty thousand 6 and less than one hundred forty thousand persons based on the two thou- 7 sand federal census shall be authorized to operate an adult day health 8 care program. Such program shall satisfy all other adult day health care 9 program requirements as set forth in 10 NYCRR Part 425. Such program 10 shall be reimbursed in accordance with subdivision 23 of section twen- 11 ty-eight hundred eight of the public health law and 10 NYCRR Part 86-2.9 12 as if such program were operated by a residential health care facility 13 without adequate cost experience and without a skilled nursing facility 14 rate in effect on January 1, 1990. Any such adult home that receives 15 authorization to operate an adult day health care program shall submit a 16 report annually to the commissioner of health, the governor, the tempo- 17 rary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly, which 18 contains the cost of the program, including the savings to the state and 19 local governments, the number of persons served by the program by coun- 20 ty, a description of the demographic and clinical characteristics of 21 patients served by the program, and an evaluation of the quality of care 22 provided to persons served by the program. After release of the second 23 report by any such program if the findings of the report do not reflect 24 a cost savings to the state and local governments, the program may be EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04189-01-1 A. 6086 2 1 terminated immediately by the commissioner of health. Within thirty days 2 of the termination of a program under this act, the commissioner of 3 health shall submit a report to the governor, the temporary president of 4 the senate and the speaker of the assembly which outlines the reasons 5 for early termination of such program. 6 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be 7 deemed repealed September 1, 2016; provided, that any person placed in 8 an adult day health care program pursuant to section one of this act, 9 prior to the repeal of this act shall be authorized to remain in such 10 program and receive the services thereof after the repeal of this act; 11 and provided, further, that state funding for the provision of adult day 12 health care program services authorized by this act shall continue after 13 the repeal of this act for any person to which the provisions of this 14 act shall continue to apply.