Senate Bill S598B

Signed By Governor

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Enacts the "reimagining long-term care task force" to create a task force to study the state of long-term care services in this state

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Date of Action	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Dec 22, 2021	approval memo.120 signed chap.758
Dec 10, 2021	delivered to governor
Mar 03, 2021	returned to senate passed assembly ordered to third reading rules cal.25 substituted for a3922a
Feb 22, 2021	referred to aging delivered to assembly passed senate ordered to third reading cal.329 committed to rules
Feb 10, 2021	2nd report cal. amended 598b
Feb 09, 2021	1st report cal.329
Jan 29, 2021	print number 598a
Jan 29, 2021	amend and recommit to aging
Jan 06, 2021	referred to aging

Votes

- Feb 22, 2021 - Floor Vote
  S598B
  
  Aye
  
  61
  
  Nay
  
  2
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  
  0
  - - Floor Vote: Feb 22, 2021
      
      aye (61)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Akshar
      
      Bailey
      
      Benjamin
      
      Biaggi
      
      Borrello
      
      Boyle
      
      Breslin
      
      Brisport
      
      Brooks
      
      Brouk
      
      Comrie
      
      Cooney
      
      Felder
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gaughran
      
      Gianaris
      
      Gounardes
      
      Griffo
      
      Harckham
      
      Helming
      
      Hinchey
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Jackson
      
      Jordan
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Kaplan
      
      Kavanagh
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      Lanza
      
      Liu
      
      Mannion
      
      Martucci
      
      Mattera
      
      May
      
      Mayer
      
      Myrie
      
      O'Mara
      
      Oberacker
      
      Ortt
      
      Parker
      
      Persaud
      
      Ramos
      
      Rath III
      
      Reichlin-Melnick
      
      Ritchie
      
      Rivera
      
      Ryan
      
      Salazar
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Savino
      
      Sepúlveda
      
      Serino
      
      Serrano
      
      Skoufis
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stec
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Tedisco
      
      Thomas
      
      nay (2)
      
      Palumbo
      
      Weik
  Feb 22, 2021 - Rules Committee Vote
  S598B
  
  Aye
  
  20
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  1
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  
  0
  - - Rules Committee Vote: Feb 22, 2021
      
      aye (20)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Bailey
      
      Benjamin
      
      Biaggi
      
      Boyle
      
      Breslin
      
      Comrie
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Griffo
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      Lanza
      
      Liu
      
      Mayer
      
      O'Mara
      
      Ortt
      
      Parker
      
      Savino
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      aye wr (1)
      
      Ritchie
  Feb 9, 2021 - Aging Committee Vote
  S598B
  
  Aye
  
  6
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  1
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  
  0
  - - Aging Committee Vote: Feb 9, 2021
      
      aye (6)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Borrello
      
      Brouk
      
      Felder
      
      May
      
      Serrano
      
      aye wr (1)
      
      Serino

Bill Amendments

Original

B (Active)

2021-S598 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A3922
Law Section:: Elder
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:: S8633, A10836

2021-S598 - Summary

Enacts the "reimagining long-term care task force act" to create a task force to study the state of long-term care services in this state.

2021-S598 - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S598

SPONSOR: MAY
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act in relation to enacting the "reimagining long-term care task
force" to create a task force to study the state of long-term care
services in this state

 
PURPOSE:

This bill establishes a long-term care task force that will examine the
state of long-term care, both home-based and facility-based, in the
state, and consider potential models for improvement. It will examine
both the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on long-term care as well as
the broader long-term system in New York.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1: Sets short title.

Section 2: Sets the duties and topics of inquiry for the task force.

Section 3: Sets the membership of the task force and establishes the
Director of the State Office for the Aging as chair.

Section 4: Directs state agencies to provide the task force necessary
assistance.

Section 5: Requires one report from the task force with respect to the
coronavirus pandemic by December 1, 2020. Requires a second report of
its full study by May 1, 2021.

Section 6: Sets the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

New York is in a period of reimagining many of the systems we rely on.
As we discuss reimagining business or schools, there is another system
that requires significant consideration: long-term care.  Nursing homes
and adult care facilities have been among the hardest hit communities in
the coronavirus crisis. Our long-term care system was already troubled
before the pandemic, with overworked and underpaid staff and facilities
whose rates have not been increased in years. The pandemic exacerbated
these challenges.

This legislation will establish a Reimagining Long-Term Care Task Force
with representatives from across the long-term care system. The task
force will have two goals. First, to examine the impact of the coronavi-
rus pandemic on long-term care in New York State, producing a report on
issues like staffing shortages, visitation bans, infection control
protocols and enforcement. Second, to make recommendations to the Gover-
nor and legislature on how to build a more resilient long-term care
system to care for and protect the overall well-being of residents and
clients in any future emergency.

 
FISCAL IMPACT:

To be determined.
 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2019-2020 - S.8633-B (May) Passed Senate /A.10836 (Cruz) Referred to
Aging

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.

2021-S598 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    598
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Aging
 
 AN ACT in relation to enacting  the  "reimagining  long-term  care  task
   force"  to  create  a  task force to study the state of long-term care
   services in this state

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 the "reimagining long-term care task force act".
   § 2. Reimagining long-term care task force; duties.  There  is  hereby
 created the reimagining long-term care task force. Such task force shall
 study  the  state of long-term care services, options and challenges for
 older New Yorkers and reimagine how the state can better meet the exist-
 ing and projected needs of such New  Yorkers  in  ways  that  prioritize
 safety  and  affordability, and enhance the quality of life for those in
 need of such care.   In carrying out its  task,  the  task  force  shall
 consider  the  full  continuum  of  care available to older New Yorkers,
 including, but not limited to,  community-based  services,  consumer-di-
 rected services, independent living, assisted living and skilled-nursing
 facility  care.  The  task  force  shall study the limitations currently
 hampering quality care, both in home-based and facility-based  settings,
 and  consider  potential  models  for improvement. In addition, the task
 force shall study the challenges and issues generated by the coronavirus
 pandemic, including, but not limited to, infection control protocols and
 enforcement, staffing  shortages,  lack  of  federally  mandated  crisis
 plans,   visitation   bans,  and  other  factors  that  exacerbated  the
 pandemic's toll on residents and staff  of  skilled  nursing  and  other
 adult-care  facilities. The task force shall utilize the findings of its
 study on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic to formulate recommenda-
 tions on how such skilled nursing and other  adult-care  facilities,  as
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04857-01-1

 S. 598                              2
 
 well  as home care service agencies, can better care for and protect the
 overall well-being of residents and clients in any future emergency.
   §  3.  Membership.  1. The reimagining long-term care task force shall
 consist of 22 members as follows:
   (a) the director of the office for the aging, or his or her designee;
   (b) the commissioner of health, or his or her designee;
   (c) the commissioner of labor, or his or her designee;
   (d) the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disa-
 bilities, or his or her designee;
   (e) two members appointed by the governor;
   (f) two members appointed by the temporary president of the senate;
   (g) two members appointed by the speaker of the assembly;
   (h) one member appointed by the minority leader of the senate;
   (i) one member appointed by the minority leader of the assembly;
   (j)  one representative of the AARP;
   (k) one representative of New York Caring Majority;
   (l) one representative of the Home Care Association of New York  State
 (HCA-NYS);
   (m) one representative of the Long Term Care Community Coalition;
   (n) one representative of 1199;
   (o) one representative of the New York State Nurses Association;
   (p) one representative of LeadingAge;
   (q)  one  representative  of  Healthcare Association of New York State
 (HANYS);
   (r) one representative of the Association on Aging in New York; and
   (s) one representative of the Empire  State  Association  of  Assisted
 Living.
   2.  Members  of  the task force shall broadly represent long-term care
 and senior-related interests, including persons with expertise in senior
 or long-term care advocacy, persons with expertise in addressing  racial
 disparities  in  senior  or long-term care, home care and facility based
 service  providers,  health  care  workers,  community-based   services,
 consumer-directed  services, associations for seniors, health care asso-
 ciations, elder law representatives, and/or  representatives  of  senior
 housing, including skilled nursing, independent facilities and services,
 assisted living facilities and services, and naturally occurring retire-
 ment communities.
   3.  The  director of the office for the aging, or his or her designee,
 shall serve as chairperson of the task force.
   4. No member of the task force shall be disqualified from holding  any
 other  public office or employment, nor shall he or she forfeit any such
 office or employment by reason of his or  her  appointment  pursuant  to
 this  act,  notwithstanding  the  provisions  of any general, special or
 local law, ordinance or city charter.
   5. The members of the task force shall  receive  no  compensation  for
 their services, but shall be allowed their actual and necessary expenses
 incurred in the performance of their duties pursuant to this act.
   §  4.  Assistance  from  state and local agencies. All departments and
 agencies of the state or subdivisions thereof, and local governments  of
 this  state  shall,  at the request of the chairperson, provide the task
 force such facilities, assistance and data to enable the task  force  to
 carry out its duties pursuant to this act.
   § 5. Reports. 1. The task force shall report the findings of its study
 with  respect to the coronavirus pandemic to the governor, the temporary
 president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly,  on  or  before

 S. 598                              3
 
 December  1, 2021. Such report shall include recommendations for further
 action and legislation.
   2.  The  task force shall report the findings of its full study to the
 governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker  of  the
 assembly,  on or before May 1, 2022. Such report shall include recommen-
 dations for further action and legislation.
   § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.

co-Sponsors

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2021-S598A - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A3922
Law Section:: Elder
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:: S8633, A10836

2021-S598A - Summary

Enacts the "reimagining long-term care task force act" to create a task force to study the state of long-term care services in this state.

2021-S598A - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S598A

SPONSOR: MAY
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act in relation to enacting the "reimagining long-term care task
force" to create a task force to study the state of long-term care
services in this state

 
PURPOSE:

This bill establishes a long-term care task force that will examine the
state of long-term care, both home-based and facility-based, in the
state, and consider potential models for improvement. It will examine
both the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on long-term care as well as
the broader long-term system in New York.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1: Sets short title.

Section 2: Sets the duties and topics of inquiry for the task force.

Section 3: Sets the membership of the task force and establishes the
Director of the State Office for the Aging as chair.

Section 4: Directs state agencies to provide the task force necessary
assistance.

Section 5: Requires one report from the task force with respect to the
coronavirus pandemic by December 1, 2020. Requires a second report of
its full study by May 1, 2021.

Section 6: Sets the effective date.

The A print of this legislation expands the task force's membership.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

New York is in a period of reimagining many of the systems we rely on.
As we discuss reimagining business or schools, there is another system
that requires significant consideration: long-term care.  Nursing homes
and adult care facilities have been among the hardest hit communities in
the coronavirus crisis. Our long-term care system was already troubled
before the pandemic, with overworked and underpaid staff and facilities
whose rates have not been increased in years. The pandemic exacerbated
these challenges.

This legislation will establish a Reimagining Long-Term Care Task Force
with representatives from across the long-term care system. The task
force will have two goals. First, to examine the impact of the coronavi-
rus pandemic on long-term care in New York State, producing a report on
issues like staffing shortages, visitation bans, infection control
protocols and enforcement. Second, to make recommendations to the Gover-
nor and legislature on how to build a more resilient long-term care
system to care for and protect the overall well-being of residents and
clients in any future emergency.

 
FISCAL IMPACT:
To be determined.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2019-2020 - S.8633-B (May) Passed Senate /A.10836 (Cruz) Referred to
Aging

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.

2021-S598A - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  598--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Aging  --  committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee

 AN  ACT  in  relation  to  enacting the "reimagining long-term care task
   force" to create a task force to study the  state  of  long-term  care
   services in this state
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 the "reimagining long-term care task force act".
   §  2.  Reimagining  long-term care task force; duties. There is hereby
 created the reimagining long-term care task force. Such task force shall
 study the state of long-term care services, options and  challenges  for
 older New Yorkers and reimagine how the state can better meet the exist-
 ing  and  projected  needs  of  such New Yorkers in ways that prioritize
 safety and affordability, and enhance the quality of life for  those  in
 need  of  such  care.    In  carrying out its task, the task force shall
 consider the full continuum of care  available  to  older  New  Yorkers,
 including,  but  not  limited to, community-based services, consumer-di-
 rected services, independent living, assisted living and skilled-nursing
 facility care. The task force  shall  study  the  limitations  currently
 hampering  quality care, both in home-based and facility-based settings,
 and consider potential models for improvement.  In  addition,  the  task
 force shall study the challenges and issues generated by the coronavirus
 pandemic, including, but not limited to, infection control protocols and
 enforcement,  staffing  shortages,  lack  of  federally  mandated crisis
 plans,  visitation  bans,  and  other  factors  that   exacerbated   the
 pandemic's  toll  on  residents  and  staff of skilled nursing and other
 adult-care facilities. The task force shall utilize the findings of  its
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04857-02-1

 S. 598--A                           2
 
 study on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic to formulate recommenda-
 tions  on  how  such skilled nursing and other adult-care facilities, as
 well as home care service agencies, can better care for and protect  the
 overall well-being of residents and clients in any future emergency.
   §  3.  Membership.  1. The reimagining long-term care task force shall
 consist of 26 members as follows:
   (a) the director of the office for the aging, or his or her designee;
   (b) the commissioner of health, or his or her designee;
   (c) the commissioner of labor, or his or her designee;
   (d) the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disa-
 bilities, or his or her designee;
   (e) two members appointed by the governor;
   (f) two members appointed by the temporary president of the senate;
   (g) two members appointed by the speaker of the assembly;
   (h) one member appointed by the minority leader of the senate;
   (i) one member appointed by the minority leader of the assembly;
   (j)  one representative of the AARP;
   (k) one representative of New York Caring Majority;
   (l) one representative of the Home Care Association of New York  State
 (HCA-NYS);
   (m) one representative of the Long Term Care Community Coalition;
   (n) one representative of 1199;
   (o) one representative of the New York State Nurses Association;
   (p) one representative of LeadingAge;
   (q)  one  representative  of  Healthcare Association of New York State
 (HANYS);
   (r) one representative of the Association on Aging in New York; and
   (s) one representative of the Empire  State  Association  of  Assisted
 Living;
   (t)  one  representative  of  the  New  York  State  Health Facilities
 Association/New York State Center for Assisted Living;
   (u) one representative of the New York Medical Directors Association;
   (v) one representative of the New York Chapter of the American College
 of Physicians Geriatrics Committee; and
   (w) one representative of Argentum New York.
   2. Members of the task force shall broadly  represent  long-term  care
 and senior-related interests, including persons with expertise in senior
 or long-term care advocacy, persons with expertise in addressing dispar-
 ities based on race, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability
 in  senior  or  long-term  care,  home  care  and facility based service
 providers, health care workers, community-based  services,  consumer-di-
 rected  services,  associations  for  seniors, health care associations,
 elder law representatives, and/or  representatives  of  senior  housing,
 including skilled nursing, independent facilities and services, assisted
 living  facilities  and  services,  and  naturally  occurring retirement
 communities.
   3. The director of the office for the aging, or his or  her  designee,
 shall serve as chairperson of the task force.
   4.  No member of the task force shall be disqualified from holding any
 other public office or employment, nor shall he or she forfeit any  such
 office  or  employment  by  reason of his or her appointment pursuant to
 this act, notwithstanding the provisions  of  any  general,  special  or
 local law, ordinance or city charter.
   5.  The  members  of  the task force shall receive no compensation for
 their services, but shall be allowed their actual and necessary expenses
 incurred in the performance of their duties pursuant to this act.

 S. 598--A                           3
 
   § 4. Assistance from state and local  agencies.  All  departments  and
 agencies  of the state or subdivisions thereof, and local governments of
 this state shall, at the request of the chairperson,  provide  the  task
 force  such  facilities, assistance and data to enable the task force to
 carry out its duties pursuant to this act.
   § 5. Reports. 1. The task force shall report the findings of its study
 with  respect to the coronavirus pandemic to the governor, the temporary
 president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly,  on  or  before
 December  1, 2021. Such report shall include recommendations for further
 action and legislation.
   2. The task force shall report the findings of its full study  to  the
 governor,  the  temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the
 assembly, on or before May 1, 2022. Such report shall include  recommen-
 dations for further action and legislation.
   § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.

co-Sponsors

View additional co-sponsors

2021-S598B (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A3922
Law Section:: Elder
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:: S8633, A10836

2021-S598B (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "reimagining long-term care task force act" to create a task force to study the state of long-term care services in this state.

2021-S598B (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S598B

SPONSOR: MAY
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act in relation to enacting the "reimagining long-term care task
force" to create a task force to study the state of long-term care
services in this state

 
PURPOSE:

This bill establishes a long-term care task force that will examine the
state of long-term care, both home-based and facility-based, in the
state, and consider potential models for improvement. It will examine
both the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on long-term care as well as
the broader long-term system in New York.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1: Sets short title.

Section 2: Sets the duties and topics of inquiry for the task force.

Section 3: Sets the membership of the task force and establishes the
Director of the State Office for the Aging as chair.

Section 4: Directs state agencies to provide the task force necessary
assistance.

Section 5: Requires one report from the task force with respect to the
coronavirus pandemic by December 1, 2020. Requires a second report of
its full study by May 1, 2021.

Section 6: Sets the effective date.

The A print of this legislation expands the task force's membership.
The B print of this legislation expands the criteria for members
appointed to the task force and the task force's remit to include
culturally and linguistically relevant care.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

New York is in a period of reimagining many of the systems we rely on.
As we discuss reimagining business or schools, there is another system
that requires significant consideration: long-term care.  Nursing homes
and adult care facilities have been among the hardest hit communities in
the coronavirus crisis. Our long-term care system was already troubled
before the pandemic, with overworked and underpaid staff and facilities
whose rates have not been increased in years. The pandemic exacerbated
these challenges.

This legislation will establish a Reimagining Long-Term Care Task Force
with representatives from across the long-term care system. The task
force will have two goals. First, to examine the impact of the coronavi-
rus pandemic on long-term care in New York State, producing a report on
issues like staffing shortages, visitation bans, infection control
protocols and enforcement. Second, to make recommendations to the Gover-
nor and legislature on how to build a more resilient long-term care

system to care for and protect the overall well-being of residents and
clients in any future emergency.

 
FISCAL IMPACT:

To be determined.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2019-2020 - S.8633-B (May) Passed Senate /A.10836 (Cruz) Referred to
Aging

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.

2021-S598B (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  598--B
     Cal. No. 329
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. MAY, RIVERA, SKOUFIS, BIAGGI, COONEY, KAPLAN, KRUEG-
   ER,  LIU, MYRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to
   be committed to the Committee on Aging -- committee  discharged,  bill
   amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
   tee -- reported  favorably  from  said  committee,  ordered  to  first
   report,  amended  on  first  report,  ordered  to  a second report and
   ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of second report
 
 AN ACT in relation to enacting  the  "reimagining  long-term  care  task
   force"  to  create  a  task force to study the state of long-term care
   services in this state
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 the "reimagining long-term care task force act".
   § 2. Reimagining long-term care task force; duties.  There  is  hereby
 created the reimagining long-term care task force. Such task force shall
 study  the  state of long-term care services, options and challenges for
 older New Yorkers and reimagine how the state can better meet the exist-
 ing and projected needs of such New  Yorkers  in  ways  that  prioritize
 safety  and  affordability, and enhance the quality of life for those in
 need of such care.   In carrying out its  task,  the  task  force  shall
 consider  the  full  continuum  of  care available to older New Yorkers,
 including, but not limited to,  community-based  services,  consumer-di-
 rected  services,  culturally  and  linguistically  relevant healthcare,
 independent living, assisted living and skilled-nursing  facility  care.
 The  task  force shall study the limitations currently hampering quality
 care, both in  home-based  and  facility-based  settings,  and  consider
 potential  models  for  improvement.  In  addition, the task force shall
 study the challenges and issues generated by the  coronavirus  pandemic,
 including,  but not limited to, infection control protocols and enforce-

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 ment, staffing shortages, lack of federally mandated crisis plans, visi-
 tation bans, and other factors that exacerbated the pandemic's  toll  on
 residents  and staff of skilled nursing and other adult-care facilities.
 The  task force shall utilize the findings of its study on the impact of
 the coronavirus  pandemic  to  formulate  recommendations  on  how  such
 skilled  nursing  and  other adult-care facilities, as well as home care
 service agencies, can better care for and protect the overall well-being
 of residents and clients in any future emergency.
   § 3. Membership. 1. The reimagining long-term care  task  force  shall
 consist of 26 members as follows:
   (a) the director of the office for the aging, or his or her designee;
   (b) the commissioner of health, or his or her designee;
   (c) the commissioner of labor, or his or her designee;
   (d) the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disa-
 bilities, or his or her designee;
   (e) two members appointed by the governor;
   (f) two members appointed by the temporary president of the senate;
   (g) two members appointed by the speaker of the assembly;
   (h) one member appointed by the minority leader of the senate;
   (i) one member appointed by the minority leader of the assembly;
   (j)  one representative of the AARP;
   (k) one representative of New York Caring Majority;
   (l)  one representative of the Home Care Association of New York State
 (HCA-NYS);
   (m) one representative of the Long Term Care Community Coalition;
   (n) one representative of 1199;
   (o) one representative of the New York State Nurses Association;
   (p) one representative of LeadingAge;
   (q) one representative of Healthcare Association  of  New  York  State
 (HANYS);
   (r) one representative of the Association on Aging in New York; and
   (s)  one  representative  of  the Empire State Association of Assisted
 Living;
   (t) one  representative  of  the  New  York  State  Health  Facilities
 Association/New York State Center for Assisted Living;
   (u) one representative of the New York Medical Directors Association;
   (v) one representative of the New York Chapter of the American College
 of Physicians Geriatrics Committee; and
   (w) one representative of Argentum New York.
   2.  Members  of  the task force shall broadly represent long-term care
 and senior-related interests, including persons with expertise in senior
 or long-term care advocacy, persons with expertise in addressing dispar-
 ities based on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, and
 disability in senior or long-term care, home  care  and  facility  based
 service   providers,  health  care  workers,  community-based  services,
 consumer-directed services, associations for seniors, health care  asso-
 ciations,  elder  law  representatives, and/or representatives of senior
 housing, including skilled nursing, independent facilities and services,
 assisted living facilities and services, and naturally occurring retire-
 ment communities.
   3. The director of the office for the aging, or his or  her  designee,
 shall serve as chairperson of the task force.
   4.  No member of the task force shall be disqualified from holding any
 other public office or employment, nor shall he or she forfeit any  such
 office  or  employment  by  reason of his or her appointment pursuant to

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 this act, notwithstanding the provisions  of  any  general,  special  or
 local law, ordinance or city charter.
   5.  The  members  of  the task force shall receive no compensation for
 their services, but shall be allowed their actual and necessary expenses
 incurred in the performance of their duties pursuant to this act.
   § 4. Assistance from state and local  agencies.  All  departments  and
 agencies  of the state or subdivisions thereof, and local governments of
 this state shall, at the request of the chairperson,  provide  the  task
 force  such  facilities, assistance and data to enable the task force to
 carry out its duties pursuant to this act.
   § 5. Reports. 1. The task force shall report the findings of its study
 with respect to the coronavirus pandemic to the governor, the  temporary
 president  of  the  senate and the speaker of the assembly, on or before
 December 1, 2021. Such report shall include recommendations for  further
 action and legislation.
   2.  The  task force shall report the findings of its full study to the
 governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker  of  the
 assembly,  on or before May 1, 2022. Such report shall include recommen-
 dations for further action and legislation.
   § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.

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