Bill Text: NY A09143 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the office for the aging to conduct a public education campaign relating to elder abuse.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 29-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-11-28 - signed chap.455 [A09143 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09143-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9143
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 29, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. CYMBROWITZ, BARRON, LINARES, ARROYO, BLAKE, BRIN-
          DISI,  CAHILL, CLARK, COLTON, COOK, GALEF, KAMINSKY, McDONALD, MOSLEY,
          SEAWRIGHT, SIMON, SKOUFIS,  GOTTFRIED,  ROSENTHAL,  SKARTADOS,  ORTIZ,
          MILLER,  JOYNER,  ROBINSON, BARRETT, HOOPER, HARRIS -- Multi-Sponsored
          by -- M. of A.  ABBATE, PERRY, RIVERA, SCHIMMINGER --  read  once  and
          referred to the Committee on Aging
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  elder  law, in relation to the authority of the
          office for the aging to conduct a public education  campaign  relating
          to elder abuse
          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  14  and  subdivision  15  of
     2  section 202 of the elder law, paragraph (b) of subdivision 14 as amended
     3  and  subdivision  15  as  added  by chapter 263 of the laws of 2011, are
     4  amended and a new subdivision 16 is added to read as follows:
     5    (b) make recommendations, in consultation with the division of housing
     6  and community renewal, to the governor  and  legislature  for  assisting
     7  mixed-use  age-integrated  housing  development  or redevelopment demon-
     8  stration projects in urban, suburban and rural areas of the state.   The
     9  director of the office for the aging and secretary of state shall estab-
    10  lish  an  advisory  committee  for  purposes  of  this subdivision. Such
    11  committee shall include, but not be limited to, top  representatives  of
    12  local  government,  senior  citizen  organizations,  developers,  senior
    13  service providers and planners; [and]
    14    15. to periodically,  in  consultation  with  the  state  director  of
    15  [veteran's]  veterans'  affairs,  review  the  programs  operated by the
    16  office to ensure that the needs of the state's aging veteran  population
    17  are  being  met  and  to  develop  improvements to programs to meet such
    18  needs[.]; and
    19    16. to the extent appropriations are available,  and  in  consultation
    20  with the office of children and family services, conduct a public educa-
    21  tion  campaign  that  emphasizes  zero-tolerance  for  elder abuse. Such
    22  campaign shall include information about the signs and symptoms of elder
    23  abuse, identification of potential  causes  of  elder  abuse,  resources
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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