Provides residential and day services to certain individuals with a developmental disability where such services are provided by a certified integrated residential community program; establishes rates for such services.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6339--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 5, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the social services law and the public health law, in
relation to providing residential and day services to certain individ-
uals with a developmental disability; and establishing rates for such
services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 365-a of the social services law
2 is amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
3 (e) services, including residential and day services, for eligible
4 individuals with a developmental disability provided by an integrated
5 residential community program certified by the office of people with
6 developmental disabilities as a residential program and recognized by
7 the same office as a service delivery alternative.
8 § 2. Subdivision 6 of section 3614 of the public health law, as
9 amended by chapter 645 of the laws of 2003, is amended by adding a new
10 paragraph (d) to read as follows:
11 (d) The commissioner shall establish rates of payment for services
12 provided by a long term care community established pursuant to the
13 provisions of chapter five hundred ninety-four of the laws of two thou-
14 sand eleven. Such rates of payment shall reflect costs associated with
15 increased staffing ratios necessary for the provision of program,
16 services and care to residents of such a community with intellectual and
17 developmental disabilities.
18 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
19 the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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