Bill Text: NY A05268 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 25-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-30 - print number 5268a [A05268 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05268-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5268--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 7, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SEAWRIGHT, BURDICK, LUNSFORD, McDONALD, GUNTHER,
          ALVAREZ, McMAHON, DARLING, ZINERMAN, SHIMSKY, SANTABARBARA, LEVENBERG,
          LUPARDO, JACOBSON, L. ROSENTHAL, SIMONE, J. A. GIGLIO, SOLAGES, GONZA-
          LEZ-ROJAS, BUTTENSCHON, SILLITTI -- Multi-Sponsored by  --  M.  of  A.
          SIMON  -- read once and referred to the Committee on People with Disa-
          bilities -- reported and referred to the Committee on Ways  and  Means
          --  recommitted  to the Committee on Ways and Means in accordance with
          Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- 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,

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  employers shall indicate the number of eligible employees based  on  the
     2  list of eligible titles pursuant to subdivision two of this section.
     3    4.  The commissioner of the office for people with developmental disa-
     4  bilities shall distribute an allocation to each eligible provider equiv-
     5  alent to four thousand dollars per eligible employee based on the  forms
     6  developed pursuant to subdivision three of this section.
     7    5.  The  funds  distributed  pursuant  to this section must be used to
     8  enhance base wages and benefits of eligible employees.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2024.