Assembly Bill A6028

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Increases the personal needs allowance for residents of certain residential health care facilities

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A6028 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Social Services
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §366, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A9654
2021-2022: A1828
2023-2024: A4272

2025-A6028 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the personal needs allowance for residents of certain residential health care facilities from fifty-five dollars to one hundred dollars per month.

2025-A6028 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6028
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 25, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SIMON, DeSTEFANO, PALMESANO, TAYLOR, HEVESI,
   LUPARDO, SEAWRIGHT -- read once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on
   Social Services
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the social services law, in relation to increasing the
   personal needs allowance for residents of certain  residential  health
   care facilities

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subclause (A) of clause (ii) of subparagraph  10  of  para-
 graph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 366 of the social services law, as
 amended  by  section 3 of part AAA of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, is
 amended to read 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-five] ONE  HUNDRED  dollars  per
 month;
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08516-01-5

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