What's happening
This bill creates a care demonstration program using the state workforce to provide and evaluate community-based services for people with developmental disabilities.
Why it matters
Focuses on using the existing state workforce. rather than private or third-party providers to deliver key community-based services, which could impact the quality, consistency, and accountability of care for people with developmental disabilities.
Includes a broad range of service types. from job support and training (like supported employment and community prevocational services) to in-home respite—potentially addressing gaps in current service offerings and providing more comprehensive support.
Mandates data collection and public reporting. on the effectiveness and quality of these programs, increasing transparency and enabling lawmakers and advocates to assess whether state-provided care meets community needs better than current models.
Establishes a time-limited experiment. (set to end March 2021), signaling this is a test of whether direct state involvement improves outcomes, and providing a structured opportunity to inform future policy decisions based on real-world evidence.
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Expand Disability Care Pilots
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
2 Co-sponsors
History
- Substituted by S5681
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.158
- Rules report cal.158
- Reported
- Reported referred to rules
- Reported referred to ways and means
- Print number 7399a
- Amend (t) and recommit to mental health
- Referred to mental health
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Expand Disability Community Care
Signed by Governor · Sponsor Robert Ortt
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
7399--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 25, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to require the office for people with developmental disabilities to establish the care demonstration program; to monitor and report on the effectiveness thereof; and to repeal certain provisions of such law relating thereto
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. (a) The commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities shall establish the care demonstration program, to utilize the state workforce to provide community based care to individuals with developmental disabilities.
(b) The services provided by these pilots shall include, but shall not be limited to:
(i) community habilitation;
(ii) in-home respite;
(iii) pathways to employment;
(iv) supported employment (SEMP); and
(v) community prevocational services.
§ 2. The office for people with developmental disabilities shall monitor the quality and effectiveness of the demonstration programs, and shall report such results to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, and the speaker of the assembly, no later than December 31, 2020.
§ 3. The commissioner of the office for people with disabilities shall promulgate all rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this section.
§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be deemed repealed March 31, 2021; provided however, that all rules and
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11096-02-7
A. 7399--A 2
regulations necessary for the implementation of this act shall have been promulgated prior to such effective date.
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