Bill Text: NY A05670 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows an adult home, enriched housing facility, assisted living residence or special needs assisted living residence to provide for nursing services in the facility that are not continual, either by arrangement with a provider of nursing services or by employment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A05670 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A05670-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5670 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 20, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Health AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to allowing certain adult care facilities to arrange for limited nursing services The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 461-c of the social services law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 6-a to read as follows: 3 6-a. (a) Pursuant to regulations of the commissioner of health, an 4 adult home, enriched housing facility, assisted living residence or 5 special needs assisted living residence operator may provide for nursing 6 services in the facility for residents of the facility, either by 7 arrangement with a provider of nursing services or by employment, that 8 are not continual and would not violate admission and retention stand- 9 ards under this section, and under circumstances and subject to limita- 10 tions provided in the regulations. An operator arranging for nursing 11 services shall provide notice to the department of health in a form and 12 manner required by the department. 13 (b) No operator electing to provide such nursing services may repre- 14 sent to the public that the adult home, enriched housing facility, 15 assisted living residence or special needs assisted living residence is 16 an enhanced assisted living residence or offers aging in place as such 17 terms are defined under section forty-six hundred fifty-one of article 18 forty-six-B of the public health law, except as otherwise permitted by 19 law. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08054-01-3
