Assembly Bill A7898

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Defines the kind of assistance required to be included as part of medicaid personal care services

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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-A7898 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4446
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §365-a, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A632, S3173
2013-2014: A998

2009-A7898 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Defines the kind of assistance required for a recipient to obtain medicaid personal care services, as assistance with health and safety needs including hands-on assistance, supervision and cuing to ensure safe performance of activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living for persons with physical or cognitive impairments.

2009-A7898 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-A7898 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  7898

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 28, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. WEINSTEIN, JACOBS, ORTIZ -- Multi-Sponsored by --
  M.  of A. BRENNAN, CLARK, COLTON, COOK, CYMBROWITZ, DESTITO, DINOWITZ,
  GALEF, GLICK, GREENE, HIKIND,  JOHN,  McENENY,  MILLMAN,  SCARBOROUGH,
  SWEENEY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health

AN  ACT  to  amend  the social services law, in relation to defining the
  kind of  assistance  required  for  a  recipient  to  obtain  medicaid
  personal care services

  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  365-a  of  the
social  services  law, as amended by chapter 170 of the laws of 1994, is
amended to read as follows:
  (e) personal care  services,  including  personal  emergency  response
services, shared aide and an individual aide, furnished to an individual
who  is  not  an  inpatient or resident of a hospital, nursing facility,
intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded, or institution for
mental disease, as determined to meet the recipient's needs for  assist-
ance  [when  cost  effective  and appropriate in accordance with section
three hundred sixty-seven-k and section three hundred  sixty-seven-o  of
this  title],  INCLUDING  HANDS-ON ASSISTANCE, SUPERVISION AND CUING, TO
ENSURE SAFE PERFORMANCE OF ALL ACTIVITIES OF DAILY  LIVING  AND  INSTRU-
MENTAL ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING FOR PERSONS WITH PHYSICAL OR COGNITIVE
IMPAIRMENTS,  and when prescribed by a physician, in accordance with the
recipient's plan of treatment and provided by individuals who are quali-
fied to provide such services, who are supervised by a registered  nurse
and  who are not members of the recipient's family, and furnished in the
recipient's home or other location.
  ASSISTANCE WITH ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING, AS USED IN THIS PARAGRAPH,
INCLUDES ASSISTANCE WITH EATING, BATHING, DRESSING, GROOMING, TOILETING,
MAINTAINING CONTINENCE, TRANSFERRING, MOBILITY INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF THE
HOME, AND ASSISTANCE WITH  THE  ADMINISTRATION  OF  MEDICATIONS  BY  THE

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07065-03-9
              

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