Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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May 29, 2024 |
referred to health |
Assembly Bill A10473
2023-2024 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
RAJKUMAR
Current 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
2023-A10473 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Health
- Law Section:
- Social Services Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §365-f, Soc Serv L
2023-A10473 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 10473 I N A S S E M B L Y May 29, 2024 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Rajkumar) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the consumer directed personal assistance program THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 365-f of the social services law, as amended by section 9 of part QQ of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows: 3. Division of responsibilities. Eligible individuals who elect to participate in the program assume the responsibility for services under such program as mutually agreed to by the eligible individual and provider and as documented in the eligible individual's record, includ- ing, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring and supervising their personal assistants. For the purposes of this section, personal assist- ant shall mean an adult who has obtained an individual unique identifier from the state by or before a date determined by the commissioner of health in consultation with the Medicaid inspector general, and provides services under this section to the eligible individual under the eligi- ble individual's instruction, supervision and direction or under the instruction, supervision and direction of the eligible individual's designated representative, provided that [a person legally responsible for an eligible individual's care and support,] an eligible individual's spouse or designated representative may not be the personal assistant for the eligible individual; however, a personal assistant may include AN ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL'S PARENT, ADULT CHILD, IN-LAW RELATIVE OR any other adult relative of the eligible individual, provided, however, that the program determines that the services provided by such relative are consistent with an individual's plan of care and that the aggregate cost for such services does not exceed the aggregate costs for equivalent services provided by a non-relative personal assistant. Any personal information submitted to obtain such unique identifier shall be main- tained as confidential pursuant to article six-A of the public officers law ("New York state privacy protection law"). Such individuals shall be EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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