Bill Text: NY A00442 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 442 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Increases the personal expense allowance for residents of residential health care facilities receiving or eligible to receive supplemental security income payments and/or additional state payments.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to social services [A00442 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A00442-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          442
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2009
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  M.  of  A. JOHN, CYMBROWITZ, MARKEY, DINOWITZ, JACOBS --
         Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of A. AUBRY,  BRENNAN,  CAHILL,  CANESTRARI,
         CHRISTENSEN,  CLARK,  COOK,  DelMONTE,  GANTT, GLICK, GREENE, HEASTIE,
         HOOPER, McENENY, MILLMAN, ORTIZ, PAULIN, SCARBOROUGH, SWEENEY,  WRIGHT
         -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the social services law, in relation to the personal
         expense allowance for residents of residential health care  facilities
         receiving or eligible to receive supplemental security income payments
         and/or additional state payments
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Item (A) of clause (i), item (A) of clause (ii), and clause
    2  (iii) of subparagraph 10 of paragraph (a) of subdivision  2  of  section
    3  366 of the social services law, item (A) of clause (i) as added by chap-
    4  ter 705 of the laws of 1988, item (A) of clause (ii) as amended by chap-
    5  ter  855 of the laws of 1990, and clause (iii) as amended by chapter 170
    6  of the laws of 1994, are amended to read as follows:
    7    (A) for the personal expenses of a resident of  a  residential  health
    8  care  facility,  as  defined  by section twenty-eight hundred one of the
    9  public health law, the amount of [fifty-five] ONE  HUNDRED  dollars  per
   10  month;
   11    (A)  for  the  personal expenses of a resident of a residential health
   12  care facility, as defined by section twenty-eight  hundred  one  of  the
   13  public health law, the amount of [fifty] ONE HUNDRED dollars per month;
   14    (iii)  Notwithstanding  the provisions of clauses (i) and (ii) of this
   15  subparagraph, the personal needs allowance for a person who is a veteran
   16  having neither a spouse nor a child, or a surviving spouse of a  veteran
   17  having  no child, who receives a reduced pension from the federal veter-
   18  ans administration, and who is a resident  of  a  nursing  facility,  as
   19  defined  in  section  1919  of the federal social security act, shall be
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1  equal to such reduced monthly pension but shall not exceed [ninety]  ONE
    2  HUNDRED dollars per month.
    3    S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
    4  the date on which it shall have become a law.