Increases the personal needs allowance for residents of certain residential health care facilities from fifty-five dollars to one hundred dollars per month.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6028
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 25, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SIMON, DeSTEFANO, PALMESANO, TAYLOR, HEVESI,
LUPARDO, SEAWRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to increasing the
personal needs allowance for residents of certain residential health
care facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subclause (A) of clause (ii) of subparagraph 10 of para-
2 graph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 366 of the social services law, as
3 amended by section 3 of part AAA of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, is
4 amended to read as follows:
5 (A) for the personal expenses of a resident of a residential health
6 care facility, as defined by section twenty-eight hundred one of the
7 public health law, the amount of [fifty-five] one hundred dollars per
8 month;
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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