Bill Text: NY A09916 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands the definition of adult care facilities for the purposes of protection of people with special needs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-27 - referred to mental health [A09916 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09916-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9916

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 27, 2020
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Mental Health

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation  to  expanding  the
          definition  of adult care facilities for the purposes of protection of
          people with special needs

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 4 of section 488 of the social
     2  services law, as added by section 1 of part B of chapter 501 of the laws
     3  of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (c)  adult  care  facilities, which shall mean adult homes or enriched
     5  housing programs licensed pursuant to article seven  of  this  chapter[:
     6  (i) (A) that have a licensed capacity of eighty or more beds; and (B) in
     7  which  at  least  twenty-five  percent of the residents are persons with
     8  serious mental illness as defined by subdivision  fifty-two  of  section
     9  1.03  of the mental hygiene law; (ii) but not including an adult home or
    10  enriched housing program  which  is  authorized  to  operate  fifty-five
    11  percent  or  more  of  its  total  licensed capacity of beds as assisted
    12  living program beds pursuant to section four hundred sixty-one-l of this
    13  chapter];
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    15  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15425-01-0