STATE OF NEW YORK
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2137--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 12, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. SERINO, AMEDORE, AVELLA, CROCI, DeFRANCISCO, FUNKE,
GALLIVAN, GOLDEN, GRIFFO, HANNON, LAVALLE, LITTLE, MARCELLINO, MURPHY,
ORTT, RANZENHOFER, RITCHIE, ROBACH, SAVINO, VALESKY -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Social Services -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to increasing the
enhanced residential care benefits for aged, blind and disabled
persons
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 2 of section 209 of the social
2 services law, as amended by section 2 of part O of chapter 54 of the
3 laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
4 (e) (i) [On and after] (1) From January first, two thousand sixteen to
5 March thirty-first, two thousand seventeen, for an eligible individual
6 receiving enhanced residential care, $1427.00; and [(ii)] (2) for an
7 eligible couple receiving enhanced residential care, two times the
8 amount set forth in [subparagraph (i)] clause one of this [paragraph]
9 subparagraph.
10 (ii) (1) From April first, two thousand seventeen to March thirty-
11 first, two thousand eighteen, for an eligible individual receiving
12 enhanced residential care, $1547.00; and (2) for an eligible couple
13 receiving enhanced residential care, two times the amount set forth in
14 clause one of this subparagraph.
15 (iii) (1) From April first, two thousand eighteen to March thirty-
16 first, two thousand nineteen, for an eligible individual receiving
17 enhanced residential care, $1667.00; and (2) for an eligible couple
18 receiving enhanced residential care, two times the amount set forth in
19 clause one of this subparagraph.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (iv) (1) From April first, two thousand nineteen to March thirty-
2 first, two thousand twenty, for an eligible individual receiving
3 enhanced residential care, $1787.00; and (2) for an eligible couple
4 receiving enhanced residential care, two times the amount set forth in
5 clause one of this subparagraph.
6 (v) (1) From April first, two thousand twenty to March thirty-first,
7 two thousand twenty-one, for an eligible individual receiving enhanced
8 residential care, $1907.00; and (2) for an eligible couple receiving
9 enhanced residential care, two times the amount set forth in clause one
10 of this subparagraph.
11 (vi) (1) From April first, two thousand twenty-one and thereafter, for
12 an eligible individual receiving enhanced residential care, $2027.00;
13 and (2) for an eligible couple receiving enhanced residential care, two
14 times the amount set forth in clause one of this subparagraph.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2017.
