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Assembly Bill A7755

Signed By Governor

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to authorizing assisted living programs to admit or retain certain residents

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2013-A7755 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5096
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง461-l, Soc Serv L

2013-A7755 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to authorizing assisted living programs to admit or retain residents who are chairfast.

2013-A7755 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7755

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 3, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. GOTTFRIED, MILLMAN -- read once and referred to
  the Committee on Health

AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to  authorizing  an
  assisted living program to admit or retain residents who are chairfast
  under certain circumstances

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

  Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 1  of  section  461-l  of  the
social  services  law,  as  added by chapter 165 of the laws of 1991, is
amended to read as follows:
  (d) "Eligible person" means a person who:
  (i) requires more care and services to meet his or her daily health or
functional needs than can be directly provided by an adult care facility
and although medically eligible for placement in  a  residential  health
care  facility,  can  be  appropriately  cared for in an assisted living
program and who would  otherwise  require  placement  in  a  residential
health  care  facility  due to factors which may include but need not be
limited to the lack of a home or a home environment in which to live and
receive services safely; and
  (ii) is categorized  by  the  long-term  care  patient  classification
system as defined in regulations of the department of health as a person
who  has  a stable medical condition and who is able, with direction, to
take action sufficient to assure self-preservation in an  emergency.  In
no  event  shall  an eligible person include anyone in need of continual
nursing or medical care, a person who is chronically bedfast [or  chair-
fast], or anyone who is cognitively, physically or medically impaired to
such a degree that his or her safety would be endangered.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10847-01-3

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