Establishes a direct support wage enhancement to employees that provide direct care support or any other form of treatment, to individuals with developmental disabilities and whose income is less than $125,000.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5268--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 7, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. SEAWRIGHT, BURDICK, LUNSFORD, McDONALD, GUNTHER,
ALVAREZ, McMAHON, DARLING, ZINERMAN, SHIMSKY, SANTABARBARA, LEVENBERG,
LUPARDO, JACOBSON, L. ROSENTHAL, SIMONE, J. A. GIGLIO, SOLAGES, GONZA-
LEZ-ROJAS, BUTTENSCHON, SILLITTI -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on People with Disa-
bilities -- reported and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
-- recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means in accordance with
Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT relating to establishing a direct support wage enhancement to
employees that provide direct care support or any other form of treat-
ment, to individuals with developmental disabilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Direct support wage enhancement. 1. Notwithstanding any
2 other inconsistent provision of law, effective April 1, 2024, providers
3 licensed, funded, approved and/or certified by the office for people
4 with developmental disabilities to provide treatment, services and care
5 for individuals with developmental disabilities shall receive supple-
6 mental funding to enhance wages of employees that provide direct care
7 support or any other form of treatment, to individuals with develop-
8 mental disabilities and whose income is less than one hundred twenty-
9 five thousand dollars.
10 2. The commissioner of the office for people with developmental disa-
11 bilities, in consultation with the division of the budget, shall estab-
12 lish a list of eligible employee titles for such wage enhancement based
13 on the application of direct care to individuals with intellectual
14 and/or developmental disabilities.
15 3. Using the forms and processes developed by the commissioner of the
16 office for people with developmental disabilities under this section,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 employers shall indicate the number of eligible employees based on the
2 list of eligible titles pursuant to subdivision two of this section.
3 4. The commissioner of the office for people with developmental disa-
4 bilities shall distribute an allocation to each eligible provider equiv-
5 alent to four thousand dollars per eligible employee based on the forms
6 developed pursuant to subdivision three of this section.
7 5. The funds distributed pursuant to this section must be used to
8 enhance base wages and benefits of eligible employees.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2024.