Bill Text: NY S00118 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Establishes a dementia and Alzheimer's disease program database.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO AGING [S00118 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S00118-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           118

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. CLEARE, ASHBY, BORRELLO, JACKSON, ROLISON, WEBB --
          read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
          the Committee on Aging

        AN  ACT  to  amend the elder law, in relation to establishing a dementia
          and Alzheimer's disease program database

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

     1    Section  1.  The  elder  law is amended by adding a new section 226 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 226. Dementia and Alzheimer's disease program database.  1.    Defi-
     4  nitions. For the purposes of this section, the terms:
     5    (a)  "Elderly  persons" shall mean individuals aged sixty years of age
     6  or older.
     7    (b) "Programs" shall mean programs, methodologies,  or  services  that
     8  are provided by a public, governmental, non-profit, or for-profit agency
     9  to elderly persons in their home or in a community setting.
    10    2.  The  office,  in  conjunction with the department of health, shall
    11  develop and maintain a database of programs that have been shown  to  be
    12  successful  in  supporting  and  treating elderly persons suffering from
    13  dementia or Alzheimer's disease.
    14    (a) The director, in conjunction  with  the  commissioner  of  health,
    15  shall  develop  criteria  to  determine if a program shall be considered
    16  successful and be included in the database.
    17    (b) The director, in conjunction with the commissioner of health,  may
    18  consult  with  public, governmental, non-profit, and for-profit agencies
    19  to determine which programs are considered successful.
    20    3. The database created pursuant to this section shall be made  avail-
    21  able  on  the  office's  website. The information from the database that
    22  shall be accessible to the public shall include but not be limited to:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00235-01-5
        S. 118                              2

     1    (a) contact information for the person  or  entity  through  whom  the
     2  program is provided;
     3    (b) the name of the program, where applicable;
     4    (c) a brief description of the program; and
     5    (d) the geographic area in which the program is provided or offered.
     6    4.  The  database created pursuant to this section shall be updated by
     7  the office, in conjunction with the department of health, at least  once
     8  annually.
     9    §  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
    10  law.  Effective immediately, the addition, amendment  and/or  repeal  of
    11  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on
    12  its effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or  before
    13  such effective date.