NY State Senate Bill 2019-S1211

Senate Bill S1211

2019-2020 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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2019-S1211 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Health
Law Section:: Social Services Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §366, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2015-2016: S4588
2017-2018: S727
2021-2022: S1687

2019-S1211 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates 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.

2019-S1211 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S1211

SPONSOR: RITCHIE
 
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

 
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 resi-
dential 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:

S.727/A.5217 of 2018.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
The first of April after it has become law.

2019-S1211 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1211
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 11, 2019
                                ___________
 
 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.
   § 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.

                                                            LBD03671-01-9

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