Authorizes certain county operated NY Connects: Choices for Long Term Care programs to participate in a universal assessment demonstration program funded pursuant to chapter 53 of the laws of 2011; targets those as potentially in need of respite, home delivered meals, and in-home services provided by the aging network and licensed home and community services and nursing home level of care.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8294--A
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 10, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Aging -- recommitted to the Committee on Aging in accordance
with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to authorizing certain county
operated NY Connects: Choices for Long Term Care programs to partic-
ipate in a universal assessment demonstration program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 203 of the elder law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 11 to read as follows:
3 11. The director, in consultation with the commissioner of health,
4 shall establish a uniform assessment demonstration program. The purpose
5 of this initiative is to determine the effectiveness of the uniform
6 assessment program funded pursuant to chapter fifty-three of the laws of
7 two thousand eleven. The director shall select one or more county oper-
8 ated NY Connects: Choices for Long Term Care providers to participate
9 based on criteria established by the director. The demonstration program
10 shall assess whether the uniform assessment tool is effective in deter-
11 mining the appropriate level of long term care for individuals in need
12 of non-medical home and community based services administered by the
13 office, or any other programs as determined by the director. Funding
14 shall be made available from the appropriation made for services and
15 expenses, including grants, of the uniform assessment program, from the
16 general fund-local assistance account to the office of long term care
17 within the department of health pursuant to chapter fifty-three of the
18 laws of two thousand eleven, and shall be sub-allocated by the depart-
19 ment of health to the office to support the administration of the demon-
20 stration program.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
22 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
23 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
24 this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to be made
25 and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11339-06-1
