Bill Text: NY S02137 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Increases the enhanced residential care benefits for aged, blind and disabled persons.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 19-3)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES [S02137 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S02137-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2137--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 12, 2017
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        Introduced  by Sens. SERINO, AMEDORE, AVELLA, CROCI, DeFRANCISCO, FUNKE,
          GALLIVAN, GOLDEN, GRIFFO, HANNON, LAVALLE, LITTLE, MARCELLINO, MURPHY,
          ORTT, RANZENHOFER, RITCHIE, ROBACH, SAVINO, VALESKY -- read twice  and
          ordered  printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
          Social  Services  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,   ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to amend the social services law, in relation to increasing the
          enhanced residential  care  benefits  for  aged,  blind  and  disabled
          persons
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 2 of section 209 of the social
     2  services law, as amended by section 2 of part O of  chapter  54  of  the
     3  laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (e) (i) [On and after] (1) From January first, two thousand sixteen to
     5  March  thirty-first,  two thousand seventeen, for an eligible individual
     6  receiving enhanced residential care, $1427.00; and  [(ii)]  (2)  for  an
     7  eligible  couple  receiving  enhanced  residential  care,  two times the
     8  amount set forth in [subparagraph (i)] clause one  of  this  [paragraph]
     9  subparagraph.
    10    (ii)  (1)  From  April  first, two thousand seventeen to March thirty-
    11  first, two thousand  eighteen,  for  an  eligible  individual  receiving
    12  enhanced  residential  care,  $1547.00;  and  (2) for an eligible couple
    13  receiving enhanced residential care, two times the amount set  forth  in
    14  clause one of this subparagraph.
    15    (iii)  (1)  From  April  first, two thousand eighteen to March thirty-
    16  first, two thousand  nineteen,  for  an  eligible  individual  receiving
    17  enhanced  residential  care,  $1667.00;  and  (2) for an eligible couple
    18  receiving enhanced residential care, two times the amount set  forth  in
    19  clause one of this subparagraph.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01962-04-7
        S. 2137--A                          2
     1    (iv)  (1)  From  April  first,  two thousand nineteen to March thirty-
     2  first,  two  thousand  twenty,  for  an  eligible  individual  receiving
     3  enhanced  residential  care,  $1787.00;  and  (2) for an eligible couple
     4  receiving enhanced residential care, two times the amount set  forth  in
     5  clause one of this subparagraph.
     6    (v)  (1)  From April first, two thousand twenty to March thirty-first,
     7  two thousand twenty-one, for an eligible individual  receiving  enhanced
     8  residential  care,  $1907.00;  and  (2) for an eligible couple receiving
     9  enhanced residential care, two times the amount set forth in clause  one
    10  of this subparagraph.
    11    (vi) (1) From April first, two thousand twenty-one and thereafter, for
    12  an  eligible  individual  receiving enhanced residential care, $2027.00;
    13  and (2) for an eligible couple receiving enhanced residential care,  two
    14  times the amount set forth in clause one of this subparagraph.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2017.