NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A6630
SPONSOR: Santabarbara TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the elder law, in relation to expanded in-home services
for the elderly; and making an appropriation therefor
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
Expands in-home services for the elderly by providing additional
resources to help meet or keep-up with growing demands for such services
that include the following: transportation service, meal delivery
personal care, and telehealth services among others.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1. Sub-section 2 is amended to the following:
§ 214-a. Service delivery innovation pilot program. Within the amounts
appropriated therefor, the office shall establish guidelines for and
administer a five-year service delivery innovation pilot program to
develop innovative delivery models, including but not limited to tele-
health services, volunteer transportation networks, and community-based
respite care.
2. Such appropriations shall be used specifically to eliminate the
current waitlist for expanded in-home services for the elderly, includ-
ing but not limited to meal delivery, housekeeping, personal care, and
transportation services. Such appropriations shall also be used to
ensure that counties in the state have adequate resources to meet grow-
ing demand for expanded in-home services for the elderly. A designated
percentage, to be determined by the director, of such appropriations
shall be used in rural counties in the state experiencing the highest
need for expanded in-home services for the elderly.
JUSTIFICATION:
Currently in NYS, in-home services for the elderly is not keeping up
with the growing demands for such services as mentioned above. This bill
seeks to expand coverage by giving way to innovative methods that aims
to reduce the growing waitlist for in-home services for the elderly by
providing new ways to access the same services that would otherwise be
bottlenecked by a lack thereof.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
None
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
None
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6630
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 6, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Aging
AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to expanded in-home services
for the elderly; and making an appropriation therefor
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "expanded
2 in-home services funding act".
3 § 2. The elder law is amended by adding a new section 214-a to read as
4 follows:
5 § 214-a. Service delivery innovation pilot program. 1. Within the
6 amounts appropriated therefor, the office shall establish guidelines for
7 and administer a five-year service delivery innovation pilot program to
8 develop innovative delivery models, including but not limited to tele-
9 health services, volunteer transportation networks, and community-based
10 respite care.
11 2. Such appropriations shall be used specifically to eliminate the
12 current waitlist for expanded in-home services for the elderly, includ-
13 ing but not limited to meal delivery, housekeeping, personal care, and
14 transportation services. Such appropriations shall also be used to
15 ensure that counties in the state have adequate resources to meet grow-
16 ing demand for expanded in-home services for the elderly. A designated
17 percentage, to be determined by the director, of such appropriations
18 shall be used in rural counties in the state experiencing the highest
19 need for expanded in-home services for the elderly.
20 3. The office shall prepare and submit an annual accountability and
21 impact report to the governor, the temporary president of the senate,
22 and the speaker of the assembly on an annual basis for the duration of
23 the service delivery innovation pilot program. Such report shall
24 include, but shall not be limited to:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (a) the use of funding appropriated for the service delivery inno-
2 vation pilot program;
3 (b) waitlist reductions for expanded in-home services for the elderly,
4 including but not limited to meal delivery, housekeeping, personal care,
5 and transportation services; and
6 (c) overall improvements in caregiver and senior well-being, as deter-
7 mined by the director.
8 § 3. The sum of forty-two million dollars ($42,000,000), or so much
9 thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the office for
10 the aging out of any moneys in the state treasury in the general fund to
11 the credit of the service delivery innovation pilot program, not other-
12 wise appropriated, and made immediately available, for the purpose of
13 carrying out the provisions of this act. Such moneys shall be payable on
14 the audit and warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certified or
15 approved by the director of the office for the aging in the manner
16 prescribed by law.
17 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
