Expands coverage for developmentally disabled persons past twenty-six years of age; prohibits insurance companies from wrongfully terminating contracts of developmentally disabled persons; requires recertification of such developmentally disabled person's condition once every five years.
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Expands coverage for developmentally disabled persons past twenty-six years of age; prohibits insurance companies from wrongfully terminating contracts of developmentally disabled persons; requires recertification of such developmentally disabled person's condition once every five years.
Relates to affordable housing for persons with a disability or having attained the age of sixty-two; establishes a developmentally disabled and elderly adult accessory apartment loan program.
Requires providers of residential services to developmentally disabled children to have surveillance cameras in the common areas of their residential facilities.
Authorizes people who transport a severely disabled person as an eligible person to receive disabled person plates; defines who qualifies as eligible persons.
Provides that the current real property tax exemption for persons over 65 may also be extended to those persons who are totally and permanently disabled; requires that municipalities shall provide by local law that such exemptions shall be granted to either those 65 years of age or older or to those who are totally and permanently disabled, or to both categories of persons.
Amends the definition of "caregiver" for the purpose of obtaining the criminal history information of such person to include persons employed to provide 15 or more hours of care per week to senior, ill and disabled persons in the home of such senior, ill or disabled person.