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                                    925
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to quality improve-
   ment and increased consumer transparency in assisted living residences

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 7 of section 4656 of the public health law, as
 added by a chapter of the laws of 2024, amending the public  health  law
 relating  to  quality improvement and increased consumer transparency in
 assisted living residences, as proposed in legislative bills numbers  S.
 8865 and A. 5790-B, is amended to read as follows:
   7.  (a)  All assisted living residences, as defined in subdivision one
 of section forty-six hundred fifty-one of this article, including  those
 licensed  and  certified  as an assisted living residence, special needs
 assisted living residence, or enhanced assisted living residence, shall:
   (i) report annually on quality  measures  to  be  established  by  the
 department,  in consultation with industry and consumer representatives,
 including the long-term care ombudsman or their representative,  in  the
 form  and format prescribed by the department, with the first report due
 no later than [January] APRIL fifteenth, two thousand twenty-five; and
   (ii) post information, including the starting  monthly  service  rate,
 range  for starting rent, approved admission or residency agreement, and
 a consumer-friendly summary of all service  fees,  through  a  reporting
 system  to be developed by the department, in consultation with industry
 and consumer representatives, that takes  into  account  differences  in
 licensure  and  certification,  services,  agreements and fee structures
 across facilities. Such information shall be  posted  in  a  conspicuous
 place on the facility's website and in a public space within the facili-
 ty  and  shall be made available to the public on forms developed by the
 department. Beginning on [October] JANUARY first, two thousand  [twenty-

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 four]  TWENTY-FIVE,  this  information  shall  also  be  reported to the
 department.
   (b)  The department shall develop a system to score the results of the
 assisted living quality reporting obtained pursuant to paragraph (a)  of
 this  subdivision,  in consultation with industry and consumer represen-
 tatives. Facilities scoring in the top quartile  shall  be  granted  the
 classification  of advanced standing on their annual surveillance sched-
 ules.
   [(i) Notwithstanding subparagraph one of paragraph (a) of  subdivision
 two  of  section  four  hundred  sixty-one-a of the social services law,
 facilities  achieving  an  advanced  standing  classification  shall  be
 surveyed  every  eighteen months. All other facilities shall be surveyed
 on an unannounced basis no less than annually; provided,  however,  that
 this  shall not apply to surveys, inspections or investigations based on
 complaints received by the department under any other provision of law.
   (ii)]  Facilities  may  remain  on  advanced  standing  classification
 provided  they  meet the scoring requirements in assisted living quality
 reporting and until such  time  when  they  do  not  meet  such  scoring
 requirements.
   (c)  Effective [January] APRIL thirty-first, two thousand twenty-five,
 the department shall post on its website the  results  of  the  assisted
 living  quality  reporting,  collected  pursuant  to subparagraph (i) of
 paragraph (a) of this subdivision.
   (d) No later than  [February  fifteenth]  DECEMBER  THIRTY-FIRST,  two
 thousand  twenty-five, the department shall report to the legislature on
 the development of a quality scoring system for adult  care  facilities,
 including  adult homes and enriched housing providers. Such report shall
 examine the specific quality measures  recommended  and  a  process  for
 information collection.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the same day and in the same manner
 as  a chapter of the laws of 2024, amending the public health law relat-
 ing to  quality  improvement  and  increased  consumer  transparency  in
 assisted  living residences, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.
 8865 and A. 5790-B, takes effect.