Bill Text: NY S06339 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides residential and day services to certain individuals with a developmental disability where such services are provided by a certified integrated residential community program; establishes rates for such services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S06339 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06339-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6339--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 5, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Rules  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend the social services law and the public health law, in
          relation to providing residential and day services to certain individ-
          uals with a developmental disability; and establishing rates for  such
          services

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 365-a of the social  services  law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
     3    (e)  services,  including  residential  and day services, for eligible
     4  individuals with a developmental disability provided  by  an  integrated
     5  residential  community  program  certified  by the office of people with
     6  developmental disabilities as a residential program  and  recognized  by
     7  the same office as a service delivery alternative.
     8    §  2.  Subdivision  6  of  section  3614  of the public health law, as
     9  amended by chapter 645 of the laws of 2003, is amended by adding  a  new
    10  paragraph (d) to read as follows:
    11    (d)  The  commissioner  shall  establish rates of payment for services
    12  provided by a long term  care  community  established  pursuant  to  the
    13  provisions  of chapter five hundred ninety-four of the laws of two thou-
    14  sand eleven. Such rates of payment shall reflect costs  associated  with
    15  increased  staffing  ratios  necessary  for  the  provision  of program,
    16  services and care to residents of such a community with intellectual and
    17  developmental disabilities.
    18    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
    19  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.
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