What's happening
This bill delays the effective date for certain fiscal intermediary certification requirements under the consumer directed personal assistance program and allows existing intermediaries to continue for one year before needing authorization.
Why it matters
Gives current fiscal intermediaries (organizations that help manage payroll and other administrative services for individuals in the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program) a one-year transition period before they must meet new certification requirements—helping avoid sudden disruption of services to vulnerable populations.
Allows the Department of Health to set up regulations and procedures in advance, aiming for smoother implementation and less confusion when stricter requirements take effect.
Provides existing intermediaries more time to adapt to new rules or obtain necessary authorization, which could help preserve continuity of care and jobs for personal assistants and reduce administrative bottlenecks.
Signals the state's recognition that immediate compliance could be challenging for providers, and suggests a legislative effort to balance oversight with practical realities for service delivery and consumer choice.
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Delay Fiscal Intermediary Rules
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History
- Approval memo.54
- Signed chap.488
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading cal.459
- Substituted for A7216
- Referred to ways and means
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 62–0
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
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- 1st report cal.650
- Referred to health
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Delay Fiscal Intermediary Rules
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor Richard Gottfried
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STATE OF NEW YORK
5544
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 7, 2017
Introduced by Sen. HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend a chapter of the laws of 2017, amending the social services law relating to fiscal intermediary certification under the consumer directed personal assistance program, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.2007-B and A.3007-B, in relation to the effective date of certain provisions thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 7 of part E of a chapter of the laws of 2017, amending the social services law relating to fiscal intermediary certification under the consumer directed personal assistance program, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.2007-B and A.3007-B, is amended to read as follows:
§ 7. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2017; except that section one of this act shall take effect on the first of January after it shall have become a law; provided that prior to that date, the commissioner of health shall make regulations and take other actions reasonably necessary to implement subdivisions 4-a and 4-b of section 365-f of the social services law, as added by section one of this act, on that date; and provided further that any entity operating as a fiscal intermediary prior to this act becoming a law may continue to do so for one year after this act takes effect, and may continue to do so after that time only upon obtaining authorization under this act.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same manner as part E of a chapter of the laws of 2017, amending the social services law relating to fiscal intermediary certification under the consumer directed personal assistance program, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.2007-B and A.3007-B, takes effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10991-01-7
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Sponsor's memo
Title of bill
An act to amend a chapter of the laws of 2017, amending the social services law relating to fiscal intermediary certification under the consumer directed personal assistance program, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.2007-B and A.3007-B, in relation to the effective date of certain provisions thereof
Purpose
To clarify the intended effective date for fiscal intermediaries in the consumer directed personal assistance program to be authorized by the Department of Health should be January 1, 2018 and allow entities operating as fiscal intermediaries prior to April 1, 2017 to have a year to obtain such authorization.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 of the bill amends section 7 of Part E of S.2007B/A3007B to provide a January 1, 2018 effective date and allow entities who were already fiscal intermediaries a year to become authorized fiscal intermediaries.
Section 2 provides an effective date
Justification
As part of the adopted health and mental hygiene article VII budget bill (S 2007B/A 3007B) a provision requiring fiscal intermediaries under the consumer directed personal assistance program to become authorized by the Department of Health was adopted. However, the effective date included in each of the legislative one-house budget bills was inadvertently left out of the final adopted bill (S 2007B/A 3007B).
This legislation clarifies that the new provision should take effect January 1, 2018 and that entities operating as fiscal intermediaries prior to April 1, 2017 will have a year to become authorized as fiscal intermediaries.
Legislative history
New Bill
Fiscal implications
None to state.
Effective date
On the same date and in the same manner as S 2007B/A 3007B
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