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Assembly Bill A8249

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Directs the development of a demonstration program to authorize individuals aged sixteen and seventeen to be consumer directed personal assistants

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2023-A8249 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7726
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §365-f, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
S6651

2023-A8249 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the development of a demonstration program to authorize individuals aged sixteen and seventeen to be consumer directed personal assistants.

2023-A8249 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8249
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             November 15, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation  to  directing  the
   development  of  a demonstration program to authorize individuals aged
   sixteen and seventeen to be consumer directed personal assistants; and
   providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  365-f  of  the social services law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
   3-A. (A) THE COMMISSIONER  IS  DIRECTED  TO  DEVELOP  A  DEMONSTRATION
 PROGRAM  TO AUTHORIZE INDIVIDUALS AGED SIXTEEN AND SEVENTEEN, WHO ARE IN
 COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-TWO OF THE LABOR LAW,  TO  BE
 CONSUMER DIRECTED PERSONAL ASSISTANTS UNDER THE INSTRUCTION, SUPERVISION
 AND  DIRECTION  OF A CONSUMER OR CONSUMER'S DESIGNATED REPRESENTATIVE IN
 THE CONSUMER DIRECTED  PERSONAL  ASSISTANCE  PROGRAM  PURSUANT  TO  THIS
 SECTION.
   (B)  AN  INDIVIDUAL  SERVING AS A CONSUMER DIRECTED PERSONAL ASSISTANT
 PURSUANT TO THE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM DEVELOPED UNDER THIS SECTION SHALL
 NOT BE AUTHORIZED TO WORK MORE THAN EIGHT HOURS A DAY, SIX DAYS A WEEK.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
 deemed repealed three years after such date.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11889-02-3

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