New York S 4837: Establishes a direct support wage enhancement to employees that provide direct care support or any other form of treatment, to individuals with developmental disabilities

Bill Text

Bill Search and Legislative Information | New York State Assembly 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

 Skip to main content 

 New York State Assembly

 Speaker Carl E. Heastie

 --> 
 --> 

 --> 

• 
 Assembly Members 

• 
 Legislative Info 

• 
 Public Hearings 

• 
 Speaker's Press 

• 
 Assembly Reports 

• 
 Committees & More 

• Bill Search Home
• Laws
• Legislative Calendar
• Public Hearing Schedule
• Assembly Calendars
• Assembly Committee Agenda 

 Javascript must be enabled to properly view this page. 

 Bill No.: 

• Summary 
• Actions 
• Committee&nbspVotes 
• Floor&nbspVotes 
• Memo 
• Text 
• LFIN 
• Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript 
S04837 Summary:

BILL NOS04837 

&nbsp

SAME ASSAME AS A07604

&nbsp

SPONSORFAHY

&nbsp

COSPNSR

&nbsp

MLTSPNSR

&nbsp

&nbsp

Establishes a direct support wage enhancement to employees that provide direct care support or any other form of treatment, to individuals with developmental disabilities and whose income is less than $125,000.

Go to top S04837 Actions:

BILL NOS04837 

&nbsp

02/13/2025REFERRED TO DISABILITIES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO DISABILITIES

Go to topS04837 Committee&nbspVotes:

Go to topS04837 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topS04837 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4837

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 13, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. FAHY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Disabilities

 AN ACT relating to establishing a direct support wage enhancement to
 employees that provide direct care support or any other form of treat-
 ment, to individuals with developmental disabilities

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

 1 Section 1. Direct support wage enhancement. 1. Notwithstanding any
 2 other inconsistent provision of law, effective April 1, 2025, providers
 3 licensed, funded, approved and/or certified by the office for people
 4 with developmental disabilities to provide treatment, services and care
 5 for individuals with developmental disabilities shall receive supple-
 6 mental funding to enhance wages of employees that provide direct care
 7 support or any other form of treatment, to individuals with develop-
 8 mental disabilities and whose income is less than one hundred twenty-
 9 five thousand dollars.
 10 2. The commissioner of the office for people with developmental disa-
 11 bilities, in consultation with the division of the budget, shall estab-
 12 lish a list of eligible employee titles for such wage enhancement based
 13 on the application of direct care to individuals with intellectual
 14 and/or developmental disabilities.
 15 3. Using the forms and processes developed by the commissioner of the
 16 office for people with developmental disabilities under this section,
 17 employers shall indicate the number of eligible employees based on the
 18 list of eligible titles pursuant to subdivision two of this section.
 19 4. The commissioner of the office for people with developmental disa-
 20 bilities shall distribute an allocation to each eligible provider equiv-
 21 alent to four thousand dollars per eligible employee based on the forms
 22 developed pursuant to subdivision three of this section.
 23 5. The funds distributed pursuant to this section must be used to
 24 enhance base wages and benefits of eligible employees.
 25 § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2025.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01000-01-5

Go to top 

• 

 Sitemap 

 Request Information 

 Directions and Maps