Bill Text: NY S06526 | 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 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-07-16 - SIGNED CHAP.296 [S06526 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06526-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6526

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 4, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY -- (at request of the Office for the Aging) --
          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 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.
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