NY State Senate Bill 2015-S4588

Senate Bill S4588

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to the personal expense allowance for residents of residential health care facilities receiving or eligible to receive supplemental security income payments

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2015-S4588 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A4214
Current Committee:: Senate Health
Law Section:: Social Services Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §366, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2009-2010: A442
2011-2012: A7832
2013-2014: A1980
2017-2018: S727, A5217
2019-2020: S1211, A5689
2021-2022: S1687

2015-S4588 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the personal expense allowance for residents of residential health care facilities receiving or eligible to receive supplemental security income payments and/or additional state payments.

2015-S4588 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                BILL NUMBER:S4588

TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the social services law, in relation to the personal
expense allowance for residents of residential health care facilities
receiving or eligible to receive supplemental security income payments
and/or additional state payments

PURPOSE:

To increase the personal needs allowance of certain residents of
residential health care facilities to one hundred dollars per month.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends the social services law to increase the maximum
amount of personal expense allowance to one hundred dollars.

Section 2 provides the effective date.

JUSTIFICATION:

Senior citizens who reside in skilled nursing facilities, some of whom
depend solely on Social Security and SSI or other forms of assistance,
are entitled to a personal expense allowance. All of these individuals

are on fixed incomes that depend on this allowance to pay for all of
their needs, ranging from clothing, toiletries and laundry supplies to
the few luxuries they can allow themselves, such as cable television,
which currently costs more than half of their monthly share.

The last increase in the personal needs allowance was in 198. Since
that time, recipients have seen a drastic decrease in the real dollar
value of their allowance. The personal needs allowance is an important
quality of life issue for these residents. This bill provides the much
needed increase of the personal expense allowance that these residents
need.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

A.1980 (2013-2014)
S.2464 /A.7832 (2011-2012)
S.4729 /A.442 (2009-2010)
S.3083 / A.2126 (2007-2008)
S.2608 / A.1640(2005-2006)
S.232 / A.0084 (2003-2004)
S.5804 / A.2218-A (2001-2002)
A.9719 (1999-2000)

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined.

EFFECTIVE DATE:

The first of April after it has become law.

2015-S4588 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4588

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             March 30, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

AN ACT to amend the social services law, in  relation  to  the  personal
  expense  allowance for residents of residential health care facilities
  receiving or eligible to receive supplemental security income payments
  and/or additional state payments

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Item (A) of clause (i), item (A) of clause (ii), and clause
(iii)  of  subparagraph  10 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section
366 of the social services law, item (A) of clause (i) as added by chap-
ter 705 of the laws of 1988, item (A) of clause (ii) as amended by chap-
ter 855 of the laws of 1990, and clause (iii) as amended by chapter  170
of the laws of 1994, are 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;
  (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] ONE HUNDRED dollars per month;
  (iii) Notwithstanding the provisions of clauses (i) and (ii)  of  this
subparagraph, the personal needs allowance for a person who is a veteran
having  neither a spouse nor a child, or a surviving spouse of a veteran
having no child, who receives a reduced pension from the federal  veter-
ans  administration,  and  who  is  a resident of a nursing facility, as
defined in section 1919 of the federal social  security  act,  shall  be
equal  to such reduced monthly pension but shall not exceed [ninety] ONE
HUNDRED dollars per month.
  S 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.
                                                           LBD06592-01-5

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