Assemblyman Robert Smullen (R,C-Mohawk Valley and the Adirondacks) attended a press conference in Albany on March 25, 2025, to support the Assembly and Senate Minority Conferences’ call for a delay in the implementation of changes to the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) from April 1, 2025 to July 1, 2025.

CDPAP provides home care services to 280,000 elderly and disabled New Yorkers. Residents currently utilizing CDPAP’s services are now being required to register with a single statewide fiscal intermediary, Public Partnerships LLC (PPL), by April 1, 2025, despite the transition period beginning on Jan. 6, 2025—just a three-month window for registration. With such little time for a seamless transition, more than 100,000 consumers have yet to complete the registration process. These new requirements threaten to disrupt care for thousands of New Yorkers who rely on the program for essential home-based assistance.

To combat these issues, Minority senators and assemblymembers have introduced new legislation (S.6689), which is aimed at protecting New Yorkers’ access to home-based care by extending the timeline of the newly proposed changes to the program.

“We must delay the implementation of these rushed changes to CDPAP until July 1, 2025, to give New York residents more time to comply with the changes,” said Smullen. “It is unacceptable for the timeframe for residents to register with PPL to be less than three full months. I fully support proposal S.6689 to extend the deadline from April 1, 2025, to July 1, 2025. Special thanks to my colleagues in the Senate and Assembly Minority Conferences for taking initiative on this time-sensitive issue to ensure New Yorkers continue to have reliable access to the home care they deserve.”