S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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9916
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 27, 2020
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Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Mental Health
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to expanding the
definition of adult care facilities for the purposes of protection of
people with special needs
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 4 of section 488 of the social
services law, as added by section 1 of part B of chapter 501 of the laws
of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
(c) adult care facilities, which shall mean adult homes or enriched
housing programs licensed pursuant to article seven of this chapter[:
(i) (A) that have a licensed capacity of eighty or more beds; and (B) in
which at least twenty-five percent of the residents are persons with
serious mental illness as defined by subdivision fifty-two of section
1.03 of the mental hygiene law; (ii) but not including an adult home or
enriched housing program which is authorized to operate fifty-five
percent or more of its total licensed capacity of beds as assisted
living program beds pursuant to section four hundred sixty-one-l of this
chapter];
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15425-01-0
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