New York Assembly Bill A03556 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3556 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 28, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the Committee on People with Disabilities AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to requiring the office for people with developmental disabilities to submit an updated waitlist and placement report to the senate and assembly The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section 2 13.28 to read as follows: 3 § 13.28 Office for people with developmental disabilities; residential 4 waitlist and placement report. 5 The office shall submit by January first, two thousand twenty-seven, 6 and every six months thereafter, an updated waitlist and placement 7 report to the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the 8 assembly, including the following information: 9 (a) Such waitlist information shall include the statewide number of 10 individuals awaiting placement broken down into the total number of 11 individuals from within each developmental disability services office's 12 geographic area who await residential placement and are expected to 13 require such placement within the next year. Such information shall be 14 grouped by the age of the individual awaiting placement and the age of 15 their caregiver, if any. Such information shall also include: 16 1. the type of placement such individuals are expected to require 17 divided into certified out-of-home, supervised, supportive placement and 18 the number of such persons who are medically frail requiring intensive 19 medical care; 20 2. non-certified residential placement outside of the parent's or 21 parents' or other caregiver's home; and 22 3. the number of individuals expected to require home and community 23 based services waiver-funded habilitation services at-home; 24 (b) Such placement information shall include: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05605-01-5 
 A. 3556 2 1 1. the total number of individuals placed within each of the settings 2 listed in paragraphs one, two and three of subdivision (a) of this 3 section during the six months preceding the date of release of the 4 report required pursuant to subdivision (c) of this section; and 5 2. the total number of individuals, who are not included on the wait- 6 list, placed within each of the settings listed in paragraphs one, two 7 and three of subdivision (a) of this section during the six months 8 preceding the date of release of the report required pursuant to subdi- 9 vision (c) of this section, and the reasons for such placements; 10 (c) The commissioner shall report the number of individuals who are 11 currently placed in a residential program, whose current living situ- 12 ation is not adequate to meet their needs and who are awaiting an alter- 13 native placement. These individuals shall be divided according to: 14 1. the number and age of such individuals; 15 2. the settings listed in paragraphs one, two and three of subdivision 16 (a) of this section; and 17 3. the number of children in residential placements expected to age 18 out of such placements within a year and plans for continuing their 19 placements as adults; 20 (d) The number of individuals whose placement failed or who have asked 21 for an alternative placement, either themselves or through their parent 22 or guardian acting on their behalf, over the six month period preceding 23 the date of release of a report, with categorical descriptions of the 24 reasons for such results and any actions taken or planned to remedy such 25 situation; 26 (e) The cost of placements made during the period of such report 27 divided into costs attributable to supervised, supportive, at-home resi- 28 dential placements or other placements; 29 (f) The appropriation authority used to fund placements made during 30 the period of the report, including the year of the original appropri- 31 ation and balance of remaining funds in such appropriation by category 32 such as OPTS, NYS-CARES or other categories; 33 (g) Projected funding requirements for individuals remaining on the 34 waiting list; 35 (h) An updated five year projection of individuals who will require 36 out-of-home residential placement and a five year projection of individ- 37 uals who require additional in-home supports; 38 (i) A plan for meeting the out-of-home residential placement needs 39 shall also be developed and shall specify the type of placements accord- 40 ing to such settings listed in paragraphs one, two and three of subdivi- 41 sion (a) of this section; and 42 (j) Any other information deemed necessary by the commissioner. 43 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.