Authorizes and directs the department of health and the office for the aging to conduct a study of fees and charges assessed to residents of assisted living facilities and to make recommendations to the legislature.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7707--A
IN SENATE
February 9, 2018
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Introduced by Sens. LANZA, SERINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Aging -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT authorizing the study of fees and charges assessed to residents
of assisted living facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The department of health in conjunction with the office for
2 the aging is authorized and directed to study the fees and charges being
3 assessed to residents of assisted living facilities. Specifically, such
4 study shall review the rate of increase of the fees and charges being
5 assessed to residents of assisted living facilities.
6 § 2. On or before April 1, 2019, the commissioner of the department of
7 health and the director of the office for the aging shall deliver a copy
8 of the findings of the study conducted pursuant to section one of this
9 act and any legislative recommendations they deem to be necessary to the
10 governor, the temporary president of the senate, and the speaker of the
11 assembly.
12 § 3. The commissioner of the department of health and the director of
13 the office for the aging may request, and are authorized to receive, any
14 information from any state agencies or assisted living facilities that
15 is relevant and material to the completion of this study and report.
16 Such information received by the department of health and the office for
17 the aging shall be subject to the same requirements for confidentiality
18 and limitations on use, if any, as are applicable to each such state
19 agency's use of such information.
20 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed
21 repealed thirty days after the delivery of the report to the governor
22 and the legislature as provided for in section two of this act; provided
23 that the department of health or the office for the aging shall notify
24 the legislative bill drafting commission upon the occurrence of the
25 delivery of the report provided for in section two of this act in order
26 that the commission may maintain an accurate and timely effective data
27 base of the official text of the laws of the state of New York in furth-
28 erance of effectuating the provisions of section 44 of the legislative
29 law and section 70-b of the public officers law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08583-03-8
