Bill Text: NY S08767 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the amount certain individuals are eligible for when receiving enhanced residential care.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-05 - referred to social services [S08767 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08767-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8767

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 8, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to  increasing  the
          amount  certain  individuals  are eligible for when receiving enhanced
          residential care

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 2 of section 209 of the social
     2  services  law,  as  amended  by section 2 of part Z of chapter 56 of the
     3  laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (e) On and after January first, two  thousand  [twenty-three]  twenty-
     5  four,  (i)  for  an  eligible  individual receiving enhanced residential
     6  care, [$1,608.00] $1,768.00; and (ii) for an eligible  couple  receiving
     7  enhanced  residential  care,  two times the amount set forth in subpara-
     8  graph (i) of this paragraph.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14822-02-4