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Senate Bill S776

Signed By Governor

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Defines medically fragile young adults for certain purposes

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2025-S776 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1476
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2831, Pub Health L; amd §2, Chap of 2024 (as proposed in S.5969-A & A.3674-A)

2025-S776 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Defines medically fragile young adults as individuals who meet the definition of children with medical fragility, but for the fact such individuals are aged between twenty-one and thirty-five years old.

2025-S776 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S776 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    776
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to medically  fragile
   young  adults;  to  amend  a  chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the
   public health law relating  to  medically  fragile  young  adults  and
   pediatric  specialized  nursing facilities, as proposed in legislative
   bills numbers S. 5969-A and A. 3674-A, in relation to  the  effective-
   ness thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 2831 of the public health law, as added by a  chap-
 ter  of  the  laws  of  2024  amending the public health law relating to
 medically fragile young adults and pediatric specialized nursing facili-
 ties, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 5969-A and A.  3674-A,
 is amended to read as follows:
   §  2831.  Medically  fragile  young  adults.  1.  For purposes of this
 section, "medically fragile young adults" shall [have the  same  meaning
 as  the  term  "medically  fragile children" as set forth in subdivision
 three-a of section thirty-six hundred fourteen of this chapter and shall
 include medically fragile young adults who currently reside at a  pedia-
 tric  specialized nursing facility and are over twenty-one years of age]
 MEAN INDIVIDUALS WHO  MEET  THE  DEFINITION  OF  CHILDREN  WITH  MEDICAL
 FRAGILITY, BUT FOR THE FACT SUCH INDIVIDUALS ARE AGED BETWEEN TWENTY-ONE
 AND THIRTY-FIVE YEARS OLD.
   2.  The  department  shall  promulgate  rules and regulations to allow
 medically fragile young adults who reside in pediatric specialized nurs-
 ing facilities to remain at such facilities [after reaching the  age  of
 twenty-one and until they reach the age of thirty-six].  Unless a higher
 reimbursement  rate  is  expressly  authorized  by  the  department, the
 reimbursement rate and methodology  for  such  medically  fragile  young
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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