Assembly Bill A3530

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Expands the definition of adult care facilities for the purposes of protection of people with special needs

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A3530 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Mental Health
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §488, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A9916
2021-2022: A3242

2023-A3530 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands the definition of adult care facilities for the purposes of protection of people with special needs.

2023-A3530 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3530
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 3, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Mental Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation  to  expanding  the
   definition  of adult care facilities for the purposes of protection of
   people with special needs
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 4 of section 488 of the social
 services law, as added by section 1 of part B of chapter 501 of the laws
 of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
   (c)  adult  care  facilities, which shall mean adult homes or enriched
 housing programs licensed pursuant to article seven  of  this  chapter[:
 (i) (A) that have a licensed capacity of eighty or more beds; and (B) in
 which  at  least  twenty-five  percent of the residents are persons with
 serious mental illness as defined by subdivision  fifty-two  of  section
 1.03  of the mental hygiene law; (ii) but not including an adult home or
 enriched housing program  which  is  authorized  to  operate  fifty-five
 percent  or  more  of  its  total  licensed capacity of beds as assisted
 living program beds pursuant to section four hundred sixty-one-l of this
 chapter];
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07756-01-3

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