STATE OF NEW YORK
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2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. BRINDISI, ABINANTI, LUPARDO, BARRETT, MURRAY,
GOTTFRIED, SKOUFIS -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Social Services
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 December thirty-first, two thousand seventeen, for an eligible individ-
6 ual 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 January first, two thousand eighteen to March thirty-
11 first, two thousand eighteen, for an eligible individual receiving
12 enhanced residential care, $1502; and (2) for an eligible couple receiv-
13 ing enhanced residential care, two times the amount set forth in clause
14 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, $1577; and (2) for an eligible couple receiv-
18 ing enhanced residential care, two times the amount set forth in clause
19 one of this subparagraph.
20 (iv) (1) From April first, two thousand nineteen and thereafter, for
21 an eligible individual receiving enhanced residential care, $1652; and
22 (2) for an eligible couple receiving enhanced residential care, two
23 times the amount set forth in clause one of this subparagraph.
24 § 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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