Bill Text: NY A07499 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the definition of social adult day services to include community or home settings which are pursuant to a person-centered service plan.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-06-02 - substituted by s6526 [A07499 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07499-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7499

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 11, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. BARNWELL, KIM -- (at request of the Office for
          Aging) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Aging

        AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to the definition  of  social
          adult day services

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 215 of the  elder
     2  law is amended to read as follows:
     3    (b) "Social adult day services" shall mean a program providing a vari-
     4  ety  of  long  term care services to [a group of individuals, possessing
     5  functional impairments] functionally impaired individuals,  whether  due
     6  to  physical  or  cognitive  impairments, in a congregate, community, or
     7  home setting and  pursuant  to  [an  individualized]  a  person-centered
     8  service plan [of care].
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09946-01-1