Assembly Actions -
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Assembly Bill A1137
2021-2022 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
BUTTENSCHON
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
Jaime R. Williams
Catalina Cruz
Inez E. Dickens
Taylor Darling
multi-Sponsors
Nader sayegh
2021-A1137 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Health
- Law Section:
- Public Health Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §§4406-c & 2801-a, Pub Health L; amd §3224-a, Ins L; amd §§1676 & 1680, Pub Auth L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2013-2014:
A7530
2015-2016: A2332
2017-2018: A3312
2019-2020: A7180
2023-2024: A1331
2021-A1137 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Requires contracts with home care service providers to provide sufficient resources to ensure compensation to a qualified workforce providing high quality care; authorizes the commissioner of health to establish a program to provide loans, through the dormitory authority, to home care facilities to finance health care reform efforts.
2021-A1137 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1137 2021-2022 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 7, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BUTTENSCHON, WILLIAMS, CRUZ, DICKENS, DARLING -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, the insurance law and the public authorities law, in relation to payments to home care services provid- ers and authorizing the commissioner of health to establish a program to provide loans, through the dormitory authority, to home care to finance health care reform efforts THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 4406-c of the public health law is amended by adding a new subdivision 11 to read as follows: 11. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY INCONSISTENT PROVISION OF LAW, CONTRACTS WITH CERTIFIED HOME HEALTH AGENCIES, LONG TERM HOME HEALTH CARE PROGRAMS, LICENSED HOME CARE SERVICES PROGRAMS OR FISCAL INTERMEDIARIES OPERATING PURSUANT TO SECTION THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE-F OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW TO PROVIDE HOME CARE AIDE SERVICES AS DEFINED IN SECTION THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED FOURTEEN-C OF THIS CHAPTER, OR CONSUMER DIRECTED PERSONAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES AS AUTHORIZED PURSUANT TO SECTION THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE-F OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW SHALL AT A MINIMUM ENSURE THAT THE RESOURCES MADE AVAILABLE BY SUCH CONTRACTS SHALL SUPPORT COMPEN- SATION FOR PERSONS PROVIDING SUCH HOME CARE AIDE SERVICES AND CONSUMER DIRECTED PERSONAL ASSISTANCE SERVICES TO ENSURE THE RETENTION OF A QUAL- IFIED WORKFORCE CAPABLE OF PROVIDING HIGH QUALITY CARE TO RECIPIENTS OF SUCH SERVICES CONSISTENT WITH THE PROVISIONS OF SUCH SECTION. § 2. Subsection (a) of section 3224-a of the insurance law, as amended by chapter 237 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows: (a) Except in a case where the obligation of an insurer or an organ- ization or corporation licensed or certified pursuant to article forty- three or forty-seven of this chapter or article forty-four of the public health law to pay a claim submitted by a policyholder or person covered EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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