Bill Text: NY S07726 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the development of a demonstration program to authorize individuals aged sixteen and seventeen to be consumer directed personal assistants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S07726 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07726-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7726

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    October 25, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  WEBB  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation  to  directing  the
          development  of  a demonstration program to authorize individuals aged
          sixteen and seventeen to be consumer directed personal assistants; and
          providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  365-f  of  the social services law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
     3    3-a. (a) The commissioner  is  directed  to  develop  a  demonstration
     4  program  to authorize individuals aged sixteen and seventeen, who are in
     5  compliance with section one hundred thirty-two of the labor law,  to  be
     6  consumer directed personal assistants under the instruction, supervision
     7  and  direction  of a consumer or consumer's designated representative in
     8  the consumer directed  personal  assistance  program  pursuant  to  this
     9  section.
    10    (b)  An  individual  serving as a consumer directed personal assistant
    11  pursuant to the demonstration program developed under this section shall
    12  not be authorized to work more than eight hours a day, six days a week.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
    14  deemed repealed three years after such date.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11889-02-3