Assembly Bill A1472

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes an Alzheimer's disease outreach and education program

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Current Bill Status - On Floor Calendar

  • 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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2025-A1472 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2669
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §207, Pub Health L (as proposed in S.6504-A & A.3122-A)

2025-A1472 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes the director of the office of the aging from deciding resources and information concerning Alzheimer's disease and any other dementia related matters; leaves such decisions to the commissioner of health.

2025-A1472 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1472
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the public health law, in relation to establishing an
   Alzheimer's disease outreach and education program
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph (r) of subdivision 1 of section 207 of the public
 health  law,  as  added  by  a  chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the
 public health  law  relating  to  establishing  an  Alzheimer's  disease
 outreach and education program, as proposed in legislative bills numbers
 S. 6504-A and A. 3122-A, is amended to read as follows:
   (r)  Alzheimer's  disease and other related dementias; including iden-
 tification of dementia in  health  care  facilities  including  but  not
 limited to hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and assisted living facili-
 ties; community support services, including caregiver support groups and
 services,  respite,  and  care management; and resources and information
 concerning Alzheimer's disease and any other  dementia  related  matters
 that  the  commissioner  [and director of the office for the aging deem]
 DEEMS appropriate.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
 manner  as  a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the public health law
 relating to establishing an Alzheimer's disease outreach  and  education
 program,  as  proposed  in  legislative  bills  numbers S. 6504-A and A.
 3122-A, takes effect.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02713-01-5

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