Bill Text: NY A08249 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
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 [A08249 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A08249-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8249 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY November 15, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Health 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 This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be 14 deemed repealed three years after such date.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
