Bill Text: NY A07504 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to reporting unmet need, which is the number of eligible individuals seeking participation in a program or service who are not receiving such program or service due to insufficient resources or capacity.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-10 - REFERRED TO AGING [A07504 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A07504-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7504 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 8, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. EICHENSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Aging AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to reporting unmet need for programs and services for the aging The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 203 of the elder law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 2-a to read as follows: 3 2-a. Each area agency on aging as defined by subdivision two of this 4 section shall collect and report to the office the unmet need for each 5 program or service offered. For the purposes of this section, unmet need 6 shall be defined as the number of eligible individuals seeking partic- 7 ipation in a program or service and who are not receiving such program 8 or service due to insufficient resources or capacity. The office shall 9 provide a report detailing the unmet need for each program or service to 10 the speaker of the assembly and temporary president of the senate no 11 later than December thirty-first of each year. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11493-02-9
