STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 727 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 4, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the personal expense allowance for residents of residential health care facilities receiving or eligible to receive supplemental security income payments and/or additional state payments The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Item (A) of clause (i), item (A) of clause (ii), and clause 2 (iii) of subparagraph 10 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 3 366 of the social services law, item (A) of clause (i) as added by chap- 4 ter 705 of the laws of 1988, item (A) of clause (ii) as amended by chap- 5 ter 855 of the laws of 1990, and clause (iii) as amended by chapter 170 6 of the laws of 1994, are amended to read as follows: 7 (A) for the personal expenses of a resident of a residential health 8 care facility, as defined by section twenty-eight hundred one of the 9 public health law, the amount of [fifty-five] one hundred dollars per 10 month; 11 (A) for the personal expenses of a resident of a residential health 12 care facility, as defined by section twenty-eight hundred one of the 13 public health law, the amount of [fifty] one hundred dollars per month; 14 (iii) Notwithstanding the provisions of clauses (i) and (ii) of this 15 subparagraph, the personal needs allowance for a person who is a veteran 16 having neither a spouse nor a child, or a surviving spouse of a veteran 17 having no child, who receives a reduced pension from the federal veter- 18 ans administration, and who is a resident of a nursing facility, as 19 defined in section 1919 of the federal social security act, shall be 20 equal to such reduced monthly pension but shall not exceed [ninety] one 21 hundred dollars per month. 22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding 23 the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02810-01-7