A 7646
Version: Introduced
Author: Rivera P
STATE OF NEW YORK
7646
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 17, 2009
Introduced by M. of A. P. RIVERA, SCHROEDER -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to payments made by the
office of mental retardation and developmental disabilities and the office of
mental health to operators of family care homes, increasing the number of
days that substitute caretakers may be provided to family care homes by the
office of mental retardation and developmental disabilities and the office of
mental health, and payments made to the operators of community residential
facilities for the needs of persons with mental retardation or other
developmental disabilities residing therein
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY,
DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision (e) of section 16.23 of
the mental hygiene law, as added by chapter 786 of the laws of 1983, is
amended to read as follows:
The commissioner shall establish a procedure, subject to the approval of
the state comptroller, whereby payments may be made to operators of family
care homes for one or more of the following needs of clients residing in such
facilities, limited to
two hundred ninety dollars SUCH AMOUNTS
per client per year
AS SHALL BE SET BY THE COMMISSIONER AND APPROVED
BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE BUDGET and paid semi-annually in the manner
specified by such procedures;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT SUCH PAYMENTS SHALL
BE NO LESS THAN SIX HUNDRED THIRTY-TWO DOLLARS PER CLIENT PER YEAR:
Section 2. The opening paragraph of paragraph 8 of subdivision (h) of
section 31.03 of the mental hygiene law, as added by chapter 809 of the laws
of 1980, is amended to read as follows:
The commissioner shall establish a procedure, subject to the approval of
the state comptroller, whereby payments may be made to operators of family
care homes for one or more of the following needs of clients residing in such
facilities, limited to
two hundred ninety dollars SUCH AMOUNTS
per client per year
AS SHALL BE SET BY THE COMMISSIONER AND APPROVED
BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE BUDGET and paid semi-annually in the manner
specified by such procedures;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT SUCH PAYMENTS SHALL
BE NO LESS THAN SIX HUNDRED THIRTY-TWO DOLLARS PER CLIENT PER YEAR:
Section 3. Subdivision (d) of section 16.23 of the mental hygiene law, as
added by chapter 786 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows:
(d) The office shall provide substitute caretakers to each family care
home for a maximum of
ten FOURTEEN days per year, either
directly or as a purchase of service.
Section 4. Paragraph 7 of subdivision (h) of section 31.03 of the mental
hygiene law, as amended by chapter 613 of the laws of 1981, is amended to
read as follows:
(7) The department shall provide substitute caretakers to each family care
home for a maximum of
ten FOURTEEN days per year, either
directly or as a purchase of service.
Section 5. The opening paragraph of subdivision (n) of section 41.36 of
the mental hygiene law, as amended by chapter 525 of the laws of 1985, is
amended to read as follows:
The commissioner shall establish a procedure, subject to the approval of
the state comptroller, whereby payments in addition to the client's personal
allowance may be made to providers of services for one or more of the
following needs of clients residing in such facilities, limited to
two
hundred fifty dollars SUCH AMOUNTS per client per year
AS
SHALL BE SET BY THE COMMISSIONER AND APPROVED BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE BUDGET
and paid
semi-annually in the manner specified by such
procedures;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT SUCH PAYMENTS SHALL BE NO LESS THAN
TWO HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS PER CLIENT PER YEAR:
Section 6. This act shall take effect immediately.