Bill Text: NY S06840 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the housing opportunities for people to empower excellence and equity (HOPE) trust fund to provide access to rental housing; to facilitate the construction, renovation and rehabilitation of facilities to provide additional residential opportunities; to develop new and innovative approaches to residential living and to promote creation of sustainable living environments for people with developmental disabilities.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-26 - REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES [S06840 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06840-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6840
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 26, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop-
          mental Disabilities
        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law and the  state  finance  law,  in
          relation to the housing opportunities for people to empower excellence
          and equity trust fund
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Legislative findings.  Many  adults  with  intellectual  or
     2  developmental  disabilities  have lived at home with family their entire
     3  lives, which has resulted in substantial savings for the  state  of  New
     4  York over many years. In a growing number of cases, however, these indi-
     5  viduals  now  live with aging family caregivers who can no longer effec-
     6  tively provide care due to their own age related disabilities and  these
     7  individuals  and  their  families remain on waiting lists for years at a
     8  time, awaiting the opportunity  to  access  an  appropriate  residential
     9  opportunity.  The  legislature therefore finds that it is incumbent upon
    10  the state of New York to address the needs of these aging caregivers and
    11  their loved ones by identifying a source of funding to assist in meeting
    12  the residential needs of these individuals.
    13    § 2. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new  section  41.56
    14  to read as follows:
    15  § 41.56 The  housing  opportunities for people to empower excellence and
    16             equity trust fund.
    17    (a) The housing opportunities for people  to  empower  excellence  and
    18  equity,  hereinafter  referred  to  as  the HOPE trust fund, established
    19  pursuant to section ninety-nine-y of the state  finance  law,  shall  be
    20  administered  and  overseen in accordance with these provisions with the
    21  purpose of providing access to rental housing for persons with  develop-
    22  mental  disabilities;  to  facilitate  the  construction, renovation and
    23  rehabilitation of facilities to provide additional residential  opportu-
    24  nities  for  people  with developmental disabilities; to develop new and
    25  innovative approaches to residential living which bring people into  the
    26  community  consistent  with the goal of full integration of persons with
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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