Bill Text: NY S04127 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
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 - Dead) 2024-01-29 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S04127 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S04127-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4127--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 3, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MANNION, ASHBY, BROUK, CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK, COMRIE, COONEY, GALLIVAN, GONZALEZ, MARTINEZ, RHOADS, SANDERS, SKOUF- IS, WEBB, WEBER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Disabilities -- recommitted to the Committee on Disabilities in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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, 2024, 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. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08578-02-4S. 4127--A 2 1 4. The commissioner of the office for people with developmental disa- 2 bilities shall distribute an allocation to each eligible provider equiv- 3 alent to four thousand dollars per eligible employee based on the forms 4 developed pursuant to subdivision three of this section. 5 5. The funds distributed pursuant to this section must be used to 6 enhance base wages and benefits of eligible employees. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2024.
