A03530 Summary:
| BILL NO | A03530 |
| SAME AS | No Same As |
| SPONSOR | Gunther |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd §488, Soc Serv L | |
| Expands the definition of adult care facilities for the purposes of protection of people with special needs. | |
A03530 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3530 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY 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: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 4 of section 488 of the social 2 services law, as added by section 1 of part B of chapter 501 of the laws 3 of 2012, is amended to read as follows: 4 (c) adult care facilities, which shall mean adult homes or enriched 5 housing programs licensed pursuant to article seven of this chapter[:6(i) (A) that have a licensed capacity of eighty or more beds; and (B) in7which at least twenty-five percent of the residents are persons with8serious mental illness as defined by subdivision fifty-two of section91.03 of the mental hygiene law; (ii) but not including an adult home or10enriched housing program which is authorized to operate fifty-five11percent or more of its total licensed capacity of beds as assisted12living program beds pursuant to section four hundred sixty-one-l of this13chapter]; 14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 15 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07756-01-3