NY State Senate Bill 2017-S6732

Senate Bill S6732

Vetoed By Governor

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to the standard of monthly need for determining eligibility for and the amount of additional state payments for eligible aged, blind and disabled persons

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Introduced
- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Vetoed By Governor
Signed By Governor

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Dec 18, 2017	vetoed memo.241
Dec 06, 2017	delivered to governor
Jun 20, 2017	returned to senate passed assembly ordered to third reading rules cal.490 substituted for a6715b referred to ways and means delivered to assembly passed senate ordered to third reading cal.2096
Jun 15, 2017	referred to rules

Votes

- Jun 20, 2017 - Floor Vote
  S6732
  
  63
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Jun 20, 2017
      
      aye (63)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Akshar
      
      Alcantara
      
      Amedore
      
      Avella
      
      Bailey
      
      Benjamin
      
      Bonacic
      
      Boyle
      
      Breslin
      
      Brooks
      
      Carlucci
      
      Comrie
      
      Croci
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Diaz
      
      Dilan
      
      Felder
      
      Flanagan
      
      Funke
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Golden
      
      Griffo
      
      Hamilton
      
      Hannon
      
      Helming
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Jacobs
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Kennedy
      
      Klein
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Larkin
      
      Latimer
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Marchione
      
      Montgomery
      
      Murphy
      
      O'Mara
      
      Ortt
      
      Parker
      
      Peralta
      
      Persaud
      
      Phillips
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Ritchie
      
      Rivera
      
      Robach
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Savino
      
      Serino
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Squadron
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Tedisco
      
      Valesky
      
      Young
  Jun 20, 2017 - Rules Committee Vote
  S6732
  
  24
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  1
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Rules Committee Vote: Jun 20, 2017
      
      aye (24)
      
      Bonacic
      
      Breslin
      
      Carlucci
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Dilan
      
      Flanagan
      
      Griffo
      
      Hannon
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Larkin
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Montgomery
      
      Parker
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Robach
      
      Savino
      
      Seward
      
      Squadron
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Valesky
      
      aye wr (1)
      
      Gianaris

2017-S6732 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A6715
Law Section:: Social Services Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §209, Soc Serv L

2017-S6732 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2017-S6732 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S6732

 TITLE OF BILL :  An act to amend the social services law, in relation
to increasing the enhanced residential care benefits for aged, blind
and disabled persons

 PURPOSE :

To increase the Social Security Income Rate adult care facilities
receive in order to ensure that these services continue to be
available to low income SSI recipients

 SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS :

Section 1: Amends paragraph (e) of subdivision 2 of section 209 of the
social services law to increase the rate of SSI payments for eligible
individuals receiving enhanced residential care in $4.00 per day
increments, the first of which takes place April 1, 2018, followed by
increases on April 1 of 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, for a total
increase of $20.00 per day.

Section 2: Provides an effective date.

 JUSTIFICATION :

Many low income elderly and disabled individuals in New York live in

adult care facilities which are paid through SSI. In the last twenty
years, adult care facilities have had one rate increase in 2007 which
brought them to the current $40.00 per day. There has been no State
COLA during this period and costs to these facilities of providing
housing, care and services have continued to go up. For example, since
2007 health insurance costs have gone up 42% and workers' compensation
costs are up 13%, not to mention real estate taxes.

The stagnant rate, coupled with rising costs, has resulted in closures
of SSI facilities. For every displaced SSI recipient who ends up in a
nursing home, the daily cost of housing and care raises from $40/day
to $150-$250/day in Medicaid costs depending upon the area of the
state. Over the past 5 years, 20 facilities have closed their doors.
In 2014 alone, seven facilities closed. These closures are hard on
individuals who lose their homes and owners who lose their businesses,
but they are also costly for the state. For example, in December 2014
an adult care facility closed in Onondaga County and eight of the SSI
residents moved into higher levels of care, resulting in the state
paying approximately $325,000 more for these eight low income seniors.
One leading upstate provider recently closed three facilities over an
8-month period resulting in 88 low income SSI recipients having to
move to other settings.

With the minimum wage increase, costs to these facilities will
continue to rise and more will be forced to close. By providing
incremental increases in the daily rate to these facilities over a
two-year period, this legislation will help keep adult care facilities
operational, low income seniors in the community, and avoid higher
Medicaid costs which result when residents are displaced.

 LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

2016: S.7333, Passed Senate
2017: Similar to S.2137A, Passed Senate

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

Savings to the state as low income elderly and disabled individuals
are maintained in lower cost care settings which do not rely on
Medicaid funding.
 EFFECTIVE DATE :
This act shall take effect April 1, 2018; provided, however, that if
section 2 of part P of chapter 56 of the laws of 2017 shall not have
taken effect on or before such date then section one of this act shall
take effect on the same date and in the same manner as section 2 of
part P of chapter 56 of the laws of 2017, takes effect.

2017-S6732 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6732
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               June 15, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  SERINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 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:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 2 of section 209 of the social
 services  law,  as  amended  by section 2 of part P of chapter 56 of the
 laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   (e) (i) [On and after] (1) FROM January first, two thousand  seventeen
 TO MARCH THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND EIGHTEEN, for an eligible individual
 receiving  enhanced  residential  care, $1,429.00; and [(ii)] (2) for an
 eligible couple receiving  enhanced  residential  care,  two  times  the
 amount  set  forth  in [subparagraph (i)] CLAUSE ONE of this [paragraph]
 SUBPARAGRAPH.
   (II) (1) FROM APRIL FIRST, TWO  THOUSAND  EIGHTEEN  TO  MARCH  THIRTY-
 FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND  NINETEEN,  FOR  AN  ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL RECEIVING
 ENHANCED RESIDENTIAL CARE, $1547.00; AND  (2)  FOR  AN  ELIGIBLE  COUPLE
 RECEIVING  ENHANCED  RESIDENTIAL CARE, TWO TIMES THE AMOUNT SET FORTH IN
 CLAUSE ONE OF THIS SUBPARAGRAPH.
   (III) (1) FROM APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND  NINETEEN  TO  MARCH  THIRTY-
 FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND  TWENTY,  FOR  AN  ELIGIBLE  INDIVIDUAL  RECEIVING
 ENHANCED RESIDENTIAL CARE, $1667.00; AND  (2)  FOR  AN  ELIGIBLE  COUPLE
 RECEIVING  ENHANCED  RESIDENTIAL CARE, TWO TIMES THE AMOUNT SET FORTH IN
 CLAUSE ONE OF THIS SUBPARAGRAPH.
   (IV) (1) FROM APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY TO MARCH  THIRTY-FIRST,
 TWO  THOUSAND  TWENTY-ONE, FOR AN ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL RECEIVING ENHANCED
 RESIDENTIAL CARE, $1787.00; AND (2) FOR  AN  ELIGIBLE  COUPLE  RECEIVING
 ENHANCED  RESIDENTIAL CARE, TWO TIMES THE AMOUNT SET FORTH IN CLAUSE ONE
 OF THIS SUBPARAGRAPH.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD13212-01-7

 S. 6732                             2
 
   (V) (1) FROM APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND  TWENTY-ONE  TO  MARCH  THIRTY-
 FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND  TWENTY-TWO,  FOR AN ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL RECEIVING
 ENHANCED RESIDENTIAL CARE, $1907.00; AND  (2)  FOR  AN  ELIGIBLE  COUPLE
 RECEIVING  ENHANCED  RESIDENTIAL CARE, TWO TIMES THE AMOUNT SET FORTH IN
 CLAUSE ONE OF THIS SUBPARAGRAPH.
   (VI) (1) FROM APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-TWO AND THEREAFTER, FOR
 AN  ELIGIBLE  INDIVIDUAL  RECEIVING ENHANCED RESIDENTIAL CARE, $2027.00;
 AND (2) FOR AN ELIGIBLE COUPLE RECEIVING ENHANCED RESIDENTIAL CARE,  TWO
 TIMES THE AMOUNT SET FORTH IN CLAUSE ONE OF THIS SUBPARAGRAPH.
   § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2018; provided, however, that
 if  section 2 of part P of chapter 56 of the laws of 2017 shall not have
 taken effect on or before such date then section one of this  act  shall
 take effect on the same date and in the same manner as section 2 of part
 P of chapter 56 of the laws of 2017, takes effect.

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