Bill Text: NY S01211 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 1211 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to the personal expense allowance for residents of residential health care facilities receiving or eligible to receive supplemental security income payments and/or additional state payments.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S01211 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S01211-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1211
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 11, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in  relation  to  the  personal
          expense  allowance for residents of residential health care facilities
          receiving or eligible to receive supplemental security income payments
          and/or additional state payments
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Item (A) of clause (i), item (A) of clause (ii), and clause
     2  (iii)  of  subparagraph  10 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section
     3  366 of the social services law, item (A) of clause (i) as added by chap-
     4  ter 705 of the laws of 1988, item (A) of clause (ii) as amended by chap-
     5  ter 855 of the laws of 1990, and clause (iii) as amended by chapter  170
     6  of the laws of 1994, are amended to read as follows:
     7    (A)  for  the  personal expenses of a resident of a residential health
     8  care facility, as defined by section twenty-eight  hundred  one  of  the
     9  public  health  law,  the amount of [fifty-five] one hundred dollars per
    10  month;
    11    (A) for the personal expenses of a resident of  a  residential  health
    12  care  facility,  as  defined  by section twenty-eight hundred one of the
    13  public health law, the amount of [fifty] one hundred dollars per month;
    14    (iii) Notwithstanding the provisions of clauses (i) and (ii)  of  this
    15  subparagraph, the personal needs allowance for a person who is a veteran
    16  having  neither a spouse nor a child, or a surviving spouse of a veteran
    17  having no child, who receives a reduced pension from the federal  veter-
    18  ans  administration,  and  who  is  a resident of a nursing facility, as
    19  defined in section 1919 of the federal social  security  act,  shall  be
    20  equal  to such reduced monthly pension but shall not exceed [ninety] one
    21  hundred dollars per month.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
    23  the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03671-01-9