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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          7755
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      June 3, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M. of A. GOTTFRIED, MILLMAN -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Health
 
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to  authorizing  an
          assisted living program to admit or retain residents who are chairfast
          under certain circumstances
 

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 1  of  section  461-l  of  the
     2  social  services  law,  as  added by chapter 165 of the laws of 1991, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (d) "Eligible person" means a person who:
     5    (i) requires more care and services to meet his or her daily health or
     6  functional needs than can be directly provided by an adult care facility
     7  and although medically eligible for placement in  a  residential  health
     8  care  facility,  can  be  appropriately  cared for in an assisted living
     9  program and who would  otherwise  require  placement  in  a  residential
    10  health  care  facility  due to factors which may include but need not be
    11  limited to the lack of a home or a home environment in which to live and
    12  receive services safely; and

    13    (ii) is categorized  by  the  long-term  care  patient  classification
    14  system as defined in regulations of the department of health as a person
    15  who  has  a stable medical condition and who is able, with direction, to
    16  take action sufficient to assure self-preservation in an  emergency.  In
    17  no  event  shall  an eligible person include anyone in need of continual
    18  nursing or medical care, a person who is chronically bedfast [or  chair-
    19  fast], or anyone who is cognitively, physically or medically impaired to
    20  such a degree that his or her safety would be endangered.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10847-01-3