Repeals provisions requiring authorization for a licensed home care services agency to enroll as a provider under the medical assistance program.
Expands the authority of the attorney general to investigate violations of the public officers law.
Relates to creating a nursing home resident quality and safety study to study the implementation of a globally recognized frailty index score methodology in nursing homes in New York state.
Relates to establishing requirements for residential health care facilities during a state disaster emergency involving a disease outbreak; requires the department of health to issue guidance regarding precautions and procedures to maintain health and safety; establishes residential healthcare facility reporting requirements.
Requires certain members of the city of Syracuse police force to be residents of such city.
Relates to providing insurance corporations with a tax credit for investments made in rural business growth funds; establishes the New York agriculture and rural jobs fund.
Requires certain people to report suspected financial exploitation of an elderly, vulnerable elderly, incompetent or physically disabled, or incapacitated person; requires certain people to receive training on identifying scams and other forms of financial exploitation; establishes a fine for willfully failing to report suspected financial exploitation.
Enacts the "New York state nursing home virtual visitation act".
Provides a tax incentive of fifty percent of the actual cost up to four thousand dollars to a taxpayer that purchases a bicycle with electric assist or electric scooter.
Authorizes the commissioner of New York homes and community renewal, as soon as practicable and subject to the disbursement of federal funds expressly for this purpose to the housing finance agency, to implement an emergency COVID-19 homeownership stability program and issue an emergency homeownership payment directly to the eligible homeowner; makes related provisions.
