Assembly Bill A4046

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Increases the personal needs allowance of individuals in nursing homes and individuals in residential programs for victims of domestic violence

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A4046 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Social Services
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§209 & 366, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A3923
2013-2014: A2163
2015-2016: A4160
2017-2018: A2232
2019-2020: A1767
2021-2022: A5308

2009-A4046 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the personal needs allowance of individuals in nursing homes and individuals in residential programs for victims of domestic violence.

2009-A4046 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4046

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 29, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH, TOWNSEND, GIGLIO -- Multi-Sponsored by --
  M.  of A. FINCH, SAYWARD -- read once and referred to the Committee on
  Social Services

AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to  personal  needs
  allowances

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 2-a of section 209 of the social services  law,
as  amended  by  chapter  450 of the laws of 1987, is amended to read as
follows:
  2-a. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of  subparagraph  (ii)
of  paragraph  (d) of subdivision one of this section, an individual who
is receiving or is eligible to  receive  federal  supplemental  security
income  payments  and/or additional state payments and who is a resident
of a residential health care facility as defined by section twenty-eight
hundred one of the public health law, shall, in  accordance  with  regu-
lations  of  the department, be entitled to a state payment for personal
needs in the amount of fifteen dollars a month, provided, however,  that
on  or  after  January  first,  nineteen  hundred eighty-eight the state
payment for personal needs for such persons shall be in  the  amount  of
[twenty-five]  FORTY-FIVE  dollars  a  month; PROVIDED FURTHER THAT SUCH
FORTY-FIVE DOLLAR AMOUNT BE SUBJECT TO AN ANNUAL THREE PERCENT  COST  OF
LIVING  ADJUSTMENT COMMENCING JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TEN AND RECAL-
CULATED EVERY JANUARY FIRST THEREAFTER.  Notwithstanding any  inconsist-
ent  provision  of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (d) of subdivision one
of this section, on or after January  first,  nineteen  hundred  eighty-
eight, a resident of an intermediate care facility operated or issued an
operating  certificate  by the office of mental retardation and develop-
mental disabilities or a patient of a hospital operated by the office of
mental health as defined in subdivision  ten  of  section  1.03  of  the
mental  hygiene  law  who is receiving or is eligible to receive supple-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06913-01-9
              

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