Bill Text: NY S04127 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 4127

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Bill Title: Establishes a direct support wage enhancement to employees that provide direct care support or any other form of treatment, to individuals with developmental disabilities and whose income is less than $125,000.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-8)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-29 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S04127 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4127

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 3, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Disabilities

        AN ACT relating to establishing a direct  support  wage  enhancement  to
          employees that provide direct care support or any other form of treat-
          ment, to individuals with developmental disabilities

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

     1    Section 1. Direct support wage  enhancement.  1.  Notwithstanding  any
     2  other  inconsistent provision of law, effective April 1, 2023, providers
     3  licensed, funded, approved and/or certified by  the  office  for  people
     4  with  developmental disabilities to provide treatment, services and care
     5  for individuals with developmental disabilities  shall  receive  supple-
     6  mental  funding  to  enhance wages of employees that provide direct care
     7  support or any other form of treatment,  to  individuals  with  develop-
     8  mental  disabilities  and  whose income is less than one hundred twenty-
     9  five thousand dollars.
    10    2. The commissioner of the office for people with developmental  disa-
    11  bilities,  in consultation with the division of the budget, shall estab-
    12  lish a list of eligible employee titles for such wage enhancement  based
    13  on  the  application  of  direct  care  to individuals with intellectual
    14  and/or developmental disabilities.
    15    3. Using the forms and processes developed by the commissioner of  the
    16  office  for  people  with developmental disabilities under this section,
    17  employers shall indicate the number of eligible employees based  on  the
    18  list of eligible titles pursuant to subdivision two of this section.
    19    4.  The commissioner of the office for people with developmental disa-
    20  bilities shall distribute an allocation to each eligible provider equiv-
    21  alent to four thousand dollars per eligible employee based on the  forms
    22  developed pursuant to subdivision three of this section.
    23    5.  The  funds  distributed  pursuant  to this section must be used to
    24  enhance base wages and benefits of eligible employees.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2023.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08578-01-3