S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5308
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 12, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. ANGELINO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee 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 672 of the laws of 2019, 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 ADJUSTMENT REFLECTING
THE LATEST CONSUMER PRICE INDEX (ALL ITEMS--U.S. CITY AVERAGE),
PUBLISHED BY THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, COMMENCING
JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-THREE AND RECALCULATED EVERY JANUARY
FIRST THEREAFTER. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of subpar-
agraph (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 for people with developmental disabilities or a patient of
a hospital operated by the office of mental health as defined in subdi-
vision ten of section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law who is receiving or
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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is eligible to receive supplemental security income payments and/or
additional state payments shall receive a state payment for personal
needs in the amount of five dollars a month. The department is author-
ized to promulgate necessary regulations to provide for the time and
manner for payment of such personal allowance to such individuals.
§ 2. Clause (ii) of subparagraph 10 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 2
of section 366 of the social services law, as amended by chapter 672 of
the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
(ii) A person who neither receives nor is eligible to receive federal
supplemental security income payments and/or additional state payments
is entitled to a personal needs allowance as follows:
(A) for the personal expenses of a resident of a residential health
care facility, as defined by section twenty-eight hundred one of the
public health law, the amount of [fifty] SEVENTY-FIVE dollars per month,
PROVIDED HOWEVER, THAT SUCH AMOUNT BE SUBJECT TO AN ANNUAL ADJUSTMENT
REFLECTING THE LATEST CONSUMER PRICE INDEX (ALL ITEMS--U.S. CITY AVER-
AGE), PUBLISHED BY THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS,
COMMENCING JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-THREE AND RECALCULATED
EVERY JANUARY FIRST THEREAFTER;
(B) for the personal expenses of a resident of an intermediate care
facility operated or licensed by the office for people with develop-
mental disabilities or a patient of a hospital operated by the office of
mental health, as defined by subdivision ten of section 1.03 of the
mental hygiene law, the amount of thirty-five dollars per month;
(C) FOR THE PERSONAL EXPENSES OF A RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM FOR VICTIMS OF
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN WHICH THREE MEALS PER DAY ARE PROVIDED, THE AMOUNT
OF SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS, PROVIDED HOWEVER THAT SUCH AMOUNT BE SUBJECT TO
AN ANNUAL ADJUSTMENT REFLECTING THE LATEST CONSUMER PRICE INDEX (ALL
ITEMS--U.S. CITY AVERAGE), PUBLISHED BY THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF
LABOR STATISTICS, COMMENCING JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-THREE
AND RECALCULATED EVERY JANUARY FIRST THEREAFTER.
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law.