Bill Text: NY A02670 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands the application of the naturally occurring retirement community supportive service program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to aging [A02670 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A02670-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2670
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 20, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A. ENGLEBRIGHT, JAFFEE, ROSENTHAL, BROOK-KRASNY,
         BENEDETTO,  CYMBROWITZ,  GUNTHER,   ORTIZ,   LUPARDO,   COOK,   GALEF,
         O'DONNELL,  LAVINE  -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, BRENNAN,
         COLTON, GOTTFRIED, ROBINSON, SCHIMEL -- read once and referred to  the
         Committee on Aging
       AN  ACT  to  amend the elder law, in relation to the naturally occurring
         retirement community supportive service program
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Paragraph (f) of subdivision 1 of section 209 of the elder
    2  law, as amended by section 41 of part A of chapter 58  of  the  laws  of
    3  2010, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (f)  ["Naturally]  A  CLASSIC  OR  HOUSING-BASED  "NATURALLY occurring
    5  retirement community" shall mean an apartment building OR BUILDINGS,  or
    6  housing complex OR COMPLEXES which:
    7    (1) [was constructed with government assistance;
    8    (2)] was not originally built for older adults;
    9    [(3)] (2) does not restrict admissions solely to older adults;
   10    (3)  IS  A  COMMUNITY IN WHICH AT LEAST TWO HUNDRED FIFTY OLDER ADULTS
   11  RESIDE AND SUCH OLDER ADULTS COMPRISE NOT LESS THAN FORTY PERCENT OF THE
   12  RESIDENTS, OR A COMMUNITY WITH AT LEAST FIVE HUNDRED OLDER  ADULT  RESI-
   13  DENTS;
   14    (4)  [at  least  fifty percent of the units have an occupant who is an
   15  older adult or in which at least twenty-five hundred  of  the  residents
   16  are older adults; and
   17    (5)]  a  majority of the older adults to be served are low or moderate
   18  income, as defined by the United States Department of Housing and  Urban
   19  Development.
   20    S 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5-a of section 209 of the elder law,
   21  as amended by section 41 of part A of chapter 58 of the laws of 2010, is
   22  amended to read as follows:
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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       A. 2670                             2
    1    (a)  the  term [Neighborhood NORC] "NEIGHBORHOOD NORC" as used in this
    2  subdivision shall mean and refer to [a] residential [dwelling  or  group
    3  of residential] dwellings, WITHOUT COMMON OWNERSHIP, in a geographically
    4  defined  neighborhood  of  a  municipality  containing not more than two
    5  thousand  persons  who  are  older  adults, AND reside in at least forty
    6  percent of the units [and which is made up  of  low-rise  buildings  six
    7  stories  or  less  in  height  and/or single and multi-family homes] and
    8  which area was not originally developed for older adults, and which does
    9  not restrict admission strictly to older adults;
   10    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.