Assembly Actions -
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Assembly Bill A3503
2025-2026 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
RAJKUMAR
Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
Judy Griffin
2025-A3503 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Health
- Law Section:
- Social Services Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §365-f, Soc Serv L
- Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
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A10473
2025-A3503 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3503 2025-2026 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 28, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RAJKUMAR -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Health AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the consumer directed personal assistance program THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 365-f of the social services law, as amended by section 9 of part QQ of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows: 3. Division of responsibilities. Eligible individuals who elect to participate in the program assume the responsibility for services under such program as mutually agreed to by the eligible individual and provider and as documented in the eligible individual's record, includ- ing, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring and supervising their personal assistants. For the purposes of this section, personal assist- ant shall mean an adult who has obtained an individual unique identifier from the state by or before a date determined by the commissioner of health in consultation with the Medicaid inspector general, and provides services under this section to the eligible individual under the eligi- ble individual's instruction, supervision and direction or under the instruction, supervision and direction of the eligible individual's designated representative, provided that [a person legally responsible for an eligible individual's care and support,] an eligible individual's spouse or designated representative may not be the personal assistant for the eligible individual; however, a personal assistant may include AN ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL'S PARENT, ADULT CHILD, IN-LAW RELATIVE OR any other adult relative of the eligible individual, provided, however, that the program determines that the services provided by such relative are consistent with an individual's plan of care and that the aggregate cost for such services does not exceed the aggregate costs for equivalent services provided by a non-relative personal assistant. Any personal EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07472-01-5
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