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Assembly Bill A7847

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Makes annual state reimbursement for expenditures for certain approved community service projects by counties to be proportional to such county's share of elderly persons living in the state

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2025-A7847 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7187
Current Committee:
Assembly Aging
Law Section:
Elder Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §214, Eld L

2025-A7847 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Makes annual state reimbursement for expenditures for certain approved community service projects by counties to be proportional to such county's share of elderly persons living in the state.

2025-A7847 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7847
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 11, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SEAWRIGHT  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Aging
 
 AN ACT to amend the elder  law,  in  relation  to  making  annual  state
   reimbursement  for expenditures for certain approved community service
   projects by counties to be proportional  to  such  county's  share  of
   elderly persons living in the state

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 of section
 214 of the elder law is amended to read as follows:
   (1) within the  amounts  appropriated  therefor,  counties  having  an
 approved  county  plan  shall be eligible for reimbursement by the state
 for expenditures for approved community  service  projects  pursuant  to
 this  section.  Such  state  reimbursement shall not exceed thirty-three
 thousand six hundred dollars or  four  dollars  twenty  cents  for  each
 elderly  person residing in the county, whichever is greater. The annual
 state reimbursement eligibility OF THE  TOTAL  ANNUAL  EXPENDITURES  FOR
 SUCH  APPROVED  PROGRAMS SHALL BE PROPORTIONAL TO SUCH COUNTY'S SHARE OF
 ELDERLY PERSONS LIVING IN THE STATE, AND shall be at a rate [of] THAT IS
 NO LESS THAN seventy-five percent of the total annual  expenditures  for
 such approved programs.
   §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11456-01-5

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