Bill Text: NY A00601 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes the home care jobs innovation program and the home care jobs innovation fund to identify, develop and support projects throughout the state designed to increase the number of individuals who become home care workers and to increase the employment retention of individuals who are employed as home care workers; provides for the granting of awards to such projects; makes an appropriation therefor.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - referred to health [A00601 Detail]
Download: New_York-2025-A00601-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 601 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. KIM, REYES, EACHUS, DeSTEFANO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing the home care jobs innovation program; to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing the home care jobs innovation fund; making an appropriation therefor; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2 3613-a to read as follows: 3 § 3613-a. Home care jobs innovation program. 1. The department, in 4 conjunction with the office for the aging, shall establish a home care 5 jobs innovation program. Such program shall: 6 (a) identify, develop and support projects throughout the state 7 designed to increase the number of individuals who become home care 8 workers; 9 (b) identify, develop and support projects throughout the state 10 designed to increase the employment retention of individuals who are 11 employed as home care workers; and 12 (c) grant awards pursuant to subdivision two of this section, subject 13 to appropriation, to the home care jobs innovation fund established 14 pursuant to section ninety-nine-ss of the state finance law. 15 2. The department, in conjunction with the office for the aging, shall 16 grant awards to projects identified or developed pursuant to subdivision 17 one of this section. Such awards shall be for the state fiscal years two 18 thousand twenty-five--two thousand twenty-six, two thousand twenty-six- 19 -two thousand twenty-seven and two thousand twenty-seven--two thousand 20 twenty-eight, and shall not exceed five million dollars in any state 21 fiscal year. Awards shall be granted at three tier levels as follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00213-03-5A. 601 2 1 Award Level Amount of Award 2 Tier 1 $100,000 or greater but less 3 than $300,000 4 Tier 2 $300,000 or greater but less 5 than $750,000 6 Tier 3 $750,000 to $1,000,000 7 3. Awards granted pursuant to subdivision two of this section shall be 8 used to fund project costs, including, but not limited to, project eval- 9 uation, project administration, project implementation, and employee 10 related costs, including additional employee compensation and bonuses. 11 Awards shall be granted for both for-profit and not-for-profit projects, 12 and, to the greatest extent practicable, be granted uniformly throughout 13 both rural and urban areas of the state to reflect the diversity 14 reflected by those areas. 15 4. The department, in conjunction with the office for the aging, is 16 authorized to promulgate rules and regulations necessary for the imple- 17 mentation of this section. 18 § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-ss to 19 read as follows: 20 § 99-ss. Home care jobs innovation fund. 1. There is hereby estab- 21 lished in the joint custody of the commissioner of health, the director 22 of the office for the aging and the comptroller, a special fund to be 23 known as the "home care jobs innovation fund". 24 2. Such fund shall consist of all moneys appropriated, credited, or 25 transferred thereto from any other fund or source pursuant to law. 26 Nothing contained in this section shall prevent the state from receiving 27 grants, gifts, or bequests for the purposes of the fund, as defined in 28 this section, and depositing them into the fund according to law. 29 3. Monies of the fund shall be expended only for the purposes of 30 granting awards pursuant to section thirty-six hundred thirteen-a of the 31 public health law. 32 4. Monies of the fund shall be payable on the audit and warrant of the 33 comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the commissioner of 34 health and the director of the office for the aging. 35 5. To the extent practicable, the commissioner of health, in conjunc- 36 tion with the director of the office for the aging, shall ensure that 37 all monies received during a fiscal year are expended prior to the end 38 of that fiscal year. 39 § 3. The sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000), or so much thereof 40 as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated from any moneys in the state 41 treasury in the general fund to the credit of the state purposes account 42 not otherwise appropriated to the home care jobs innovation fund for the 43 purposes of granting awards by the home care jobs innovation program in 44 carrying out the provisions of this act. Such sum shall be payable on 45 the audit and warrant of the state comptroller on vouchers certified or 46 approved in the manner provided by law. 47 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be 48 deemed repealed April 1, 2028.
