Bill Text: NY A05543 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Expands the application of the naturally occurring retirement community supportive service program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 31-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to aging [A05543 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A05543-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5543
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 23, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, JAFFEE, MILLMAN, BOYLAND, SCHROEDER,
         ROSENTHAL,   BROOK-KRASNY,  BENEDETTO,  JACOBS,  CYMBROWITZ,  GUNTHER,
         ORTIZ, LUPARDO, COOK, GALEF, O'DONNELL, LAVINE --  Multi-Sponsored  by
         --  M.  of A. ABBATE, BING, BRENNAN, COLTON, DESTITO, GABRYSZAK, GOTT-
         FRIED, V. LOPEZ, MAISEL, McENENY, PHEFFER, ROBINSON, SCHIMEL,  WEISEN-
         BERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Aging
       AN  ACT  to  amend the elder law, in relation to the naturally occurring
         retirement community supportive service program
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Paragraph (f) of subdivision 1 of section 209 of the elder
    2  law, as amended by section 41 of part A of chapter 58  of  the  laws  of
    3  2010, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (f)  ["Naturally]  A  CLASSIC  OR  HOUSING-BASED  "NATURALLY occurring
    5  retirement community" shall mean an apartment building OR BUILDINGS,  or
    6  housing complex OR COMPLEXES which:
    7    (1) [was constructed with government assistance;
    8    (2)] was not originally built for older adults;
    9    [(3)] (2) does not restrict admissions solely to older adults;
   10    (3)  IS  A  COMMUNITY IN WHICH AT LEAST TWO HUNDRED FIFTY OLDER ADULTS
   11  RESIDE AND SUCH OLDER ADULTS COMPRISE NOT LESS THAN FORTY PERCENT OF THE
   12  RESIDENTS, OR A COMMUNITY WITH AT LEAST FIVE HUNDRED OLDER  ADULT  RESI-
   13  DENTS;
   14    (4)  [at  least  fifty percent of the units have an occupant who is an
   15  older adult or in which at least twenty-five hundred  of  the  residents
   16  are older adults; and
   17    (5)]  a  majority of the older adults to be served are low or moderate
   18  income, as defined by the United States Department of Housing and  Urban
   19  Development.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1    S 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5-a of section 209 of the elder law,
    2  as amended by section 41 of part A of chapter 58 of the laws of 2010, is
    3  amended to read as follows:
    4    (a)  the  term [Neighborhood NORC] "NEIGHBORHOOD NORC" as used in this
    5  subdivision shall mean and refer to [a] residential [dwelling  or  group
    6  of residential] dwellings, WITHOUT COMMON OWNERSHIP, in a geographically
    7  defined  neighborhood  of  a  municipality  containing not more than two
    8  thousand persons who are older adults, AND  reside  in  at  least  forty
    9  percent  of  the  units  [and which is made up of low-rise buildings six
   10  stories or less in height and/or  single  and  multi-family  homes]  and
   11  which area was not originally developed for older adults, and which does
   12  not restrict admission strictly to older adults;
   13    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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