Repeals managed long term care provisions for Medicaid recipients; establishes provisions for fully integrated plans for long term care including PACE and MAP plans.
Relates to enacting the "adjacent neighbors' bill of rights"; requires the department of buildings to develop a bulletin known as the "adjacent neighbors' bill of rights" advising homeowners who are adjacent to a property under development or construction of their rights and available resources and post such bulletin on the department's website.
Provides additional protections for sensitive health information; requires all health information networks, electronic health record systems, and health care providers to provide patients with a right to restrict the disclosures of such patient's health information; defines terms; provides for exceptions.
Requires the division of housing and community renewal to calculate the period of rent reduction due to diminution of services from the date of actual diminution of the services.
Establishes an affordable independent senior housing assistance program which shall provide grants within amounts appropriated or otherwise available therefor to affordable independent senior housing properties to establish and operate resident assistance programs.
Maddy summaryBill S 8006 authorizes Dutchess County to offer an optional 25-year retirement plan to a specific group of its deputy sheriffs. These deputy sheriffs had previously missed the deadline to enroll in this retirement plan for reasons not attributed to their own negligence. To implement this, Dutchess County must file a resolution and certification with the state comptroller, after which the listed individual deputies can choose to enroll in the plan. The county will be responsible for all associated past service costs, which can be paid over a five-year period.
Relates to defining veteran; includes national guard members who have served for at least twenty years, part of which was during any war or period of hostilities.
Directs the commissioner to convene statewide and regional conventions to bring together underrepresented educators annually to discuss experiences, best practices, and afford for networking, mentorship opportunities, and support.
Modifies the definition of additional member contributions and basic member contributions for certain New York city employees' retirement system members who are subject to the twenty-five year retirement program for fire protection inspector members under Article 15 of the retirement and social security law, to allow such additional member contributions to be used to offset a deficit of basic member contributions, or to allow an excess of basic member contributions to offset a deficit of additional member contributions.
Provides that certain utilization review determinations shall be made consistent with medical and scientific evidence; includes services for mental health and substance use disorders as part of emergency services.
