Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities to establish the care demonstration program, to utilize the state workforce to provide community based care to individuals with developmental disabilities.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5364
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 16, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on People with Disabilities
AN ACT to require the office for people with developmental disabilities
to establish the care demonstration program; and providing for the
repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. (a) The commissioner of the office for people with develop-
2 mental disabilities shall establish the care demonstration program, to
3 utilize the state workforce to provide community based care to individ-
4 uals with developmental disabilities.
5 (b) The services provided by such care demonstration program may
6 include, but shall not be limited to:
7 (i) community habilitation;
8 (ii) in-home respite;
9 (iii) pathways to employment;
10 (iv) supported employment (SEMP); and
11 (v) community prevocational services.
12 § 2. The commissioner of the office for people with developmental
13 disabilities shall promulgate all rules and regulations necessary to
14 implement the provisions of this act.
15 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
16 deemed repealed March 31, 2024.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03733-01-1
