New York A 464: Relates to enacting the "New York state teleworking expansion act"

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A00464 Summary:

BILL NOA00464B

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SAME ASSAME AS S04462-B

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SPONSORSteck (MS)

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COSPNSRShimsky, Seawright, Jones, Lunsford, Bendett, Ra, Reyes, McDonald, Santabarbara, Buttenschon,
 Yeger, Hevesi, Slater, Simon, Davila, Giglio, Pheffer Amato, Morinello, Jensen, DeStefano,
 McDonough, Brown E, Mikulin, Griffin, Tague, Smullen, Fitzpatrick, Maher, Woerner, Romero, Stern,
 Beephan, Novakhov, Kay, Chang, Manktelow, Clark, Wright, Eachus, Sempolinski, Colton, Simone

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MLTSPNSRWalsh

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Add §365-q, Soc Serv L

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Establishes a program for specific individuals to become complex care assistants and provide private duty nursing services to certain Medicaid enrollees.

Go to top A00464 Actions:

BILL NOA00464B

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01/08/2025referred to health

02/13/2025amend (t) and recommit to health

02/13/2025print number 464a

04/28/2025amend and recommit to health

04/28/2025print number 464b

01/07/2026referred to health

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 464--B

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. STECK, SHIMSKY, SEAWRIGHT, JONES, LUNSFORD,
 BENDETT, RA, REYES, McDONALD, SANTABARBARA, BUTTENSCHON, YEGER, HEVE-
 SI, SLATER, SIMON, DAVILA, GIGLIO, PHEFFER AMATO, MORINELLO, JENSEN,
 DeSTEFANO, McDONOUGH, E. BROWN, MIKULIN, GRIFFIN, TAGUE, SMULLEN,
 FITZPATRICK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. WALSH -- read once and
 referred to the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill
 amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
 tee -- again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered
 reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to authorizing
 Medicaid coverage for complex care assistant services

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

 1 Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
 2 365-q to read as follows:
 3 § 365-q. Complex care assistant services program. 1. As used in this
 4 section:
 5 (a) "family member" means a person who is legally responsible for the
 6 medically fragile child; and
 7 (b) "complex care assistant" means a family member who is certified by
 8 the department after passing an in-person examination which tests the
 9 proficiency and competence of performing the tasks required to care for
 10 a medically fragile child which can include, but is not limited to, all
 11 activities of daily living skills (ADL's) and instrumental activities of
 12 daily living (IADL's), and allowable tasks for a home health aide and/or
 13 personal care assistant. Complex care assistant tasks may be performed
 14 simultaneously in the role of competent family caregiver in absence of
 15 an available private duty nurse.
 16 2. (a) No later than one year after this section shall have become a
 17 law and receipt of federal approval for the program established pursuant

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00675-06-5

 A. 464--B 2

 1 to this section, the department shall establish a program under which a
 2 family member of an enrollee in Medicaid may be certified as a complex
 3 care assistant and, after receiving such certification may, under the
 4 direction of a registered nurse, provide complex care assistant services
 5 to the enrollee through a private duty nursing agency under the
 6 reimbursement rates established under paragraph (f) of this subdivision,
 7 provided that the enrollee is a medically fragile child as defined in
 8 section forty-four hundred one of the public health law or qualifies for
 9 private duty nursing services under Medicaid. Such program shall operate
 10 as a New York Medicaid private duty nursing benefit. The department
 11 shall develop an assessment tool that will allow the state to identify
 12 enrollees who meet these eligibility criteria.
 13 (b) The program established under this section shall require a family
 14 member to complete all training, testing, and