New York S 5980: Limits adjustments for major capital improvements where the improvement generates revenue for the landlord

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S05980 Summary:

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Add §4625, Pub Health L

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Establishes a continuing care retirement community bill of rights; requires the commissioner of health to designate a county ombudsperson to monitor such bill of rights.

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03/04/2025REFERRED TO AGING

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 5980

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 4, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. S. RYAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Aging

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing a
 continuing care retirement community bill of rights

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

 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
 2 4625 to read as follows:
 3 § 4625. Continuing care retirement community bill of rights. 1. Every
 4 continuing care retirement community (CCRC) shall adopt, implement and
 5 distribute to residents the following continuing care retirement commu-
 6 nity bill of rights. All residents of CCRCs shall have the right to:
 7 a. expect full, prompt and complete fulfillment by the CCRC's manage-
 8 ment of those services delineated in their contracts and other affil-
 9 iated contracts. An annual survey of such services with an evaluation of
 10 their fulfillment shall be implemented by the residents' association
 11 with results distributed to residents. Contracts approved by the manage-
 12 ment of the CCRC shall be available for inspection by residents or their
 13 designated representatives;
 14 b. establish, organize, fund, develop by-laws for, and operate a resi-
 15 dents' association whose purposes include, but are not limited to,
 16 representing the interests of the residents to the administration and
 17 the CCRC's corporate governing board;
 18 c. freely assemble, with or without the participation of management
 19 and staff as the residents in their judgment deem advisable, to enhance
 20 communication and information-sharing among the residents, and to
 21 promote active learning and discussion of issues facing the CCRC commu-
 22 nity;
 23 d. select and appoint, in accordance with the resident association's
 24 own by-laws, at least one but no more than two members of the CCRC's

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10580-01-5

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 1 corporate governing board, who have rights and duties commensurate with
 2 the other board members;
 3 e. receive regularly scheduled reports from the association-appointed
 4 governing board members about the board's deliberations, actions and
 5 policies. Residents have a right to a corporate governing board every
 6 member of which acknowledges their fiduciary responsibility to the resi-
 7 dents. All corporate board and corporate board committee meetings shall
 8 be open to any resident or their representative wishing to attend with-
 9 out fear of reprisal except for meetings closed in accordance with state
 10 or federal statutes and regulations. Meetings shall be closed only for
 11 discussion of personnel or personal health issues;
 12 f. be kept informed by the administration, on a semiannual basis,
 13 about all significant issues of management which directly affect resi-
 14 dents' well-being or their financial investment, or any issues about
 15 which residents are concerned, limited only by necessary and explicitly
 16 defined policies of confidentially and privacy;
 17 g. full disclosure of the finances of the corporation, presented at
 18 least on an annual basis. In cases where a community is a member of a
 19 consortium of communities, residents have the right to be fully informed
 20 of the finances of both their local community and of the parent corpo-
 21 ration. CCRC residents have the right to receive periodic written
 22 reports from a duly ce