A11569 • 2025

Relates to a nursing facility transition and diversion Medicaid waiting list

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Last action: 2026-06-04
Official status: Assembly Floor Calendar
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Relates to a nursing facility transition and diversion Medicaid waiting list

Relates to a nursing facility transition and diversion Medicaid waiting list Authorizes the commissioner of health to establish nursing facility transition and diversion Medicaid waiting lists per designated waiver region, once the federally approved capacity for the waiver is reached.

What This Bill Does

Relates to a nursing facility transition and diversion Medicaid waiting list Authorizes the commissioner of health to establish nursing facility transition and diversion Medicaid waiting lists per designated waiver region, once the federally approved capacity for the waiver is reached.

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Bill History

2026-06-04 Assembly
REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES
2026-06-04 Assembly
REPORTED
2026-06-04 Assembly
RULES REPORT CAL.529
2026-06-04 Assembly
ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.529
2026-06-04 Assembly
SUBSTITUTED BY S9573
2026-06-02 Assembly
REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS

Official Summary Text

Relates to a nursing facility transition and diversion Medicaid waiting list
Authorizes the commissioner of health to establish nursing facility transition and diversion Medicaid waiting lists per designated waiver region, once the federally approved capacity for the waiver is reached.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          11569

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                      June 2, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced   by   COMMITTEE  ON  RULES  --  (at  request  of  M.  of  A.
          De Los Santos) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways  and
          Means

        AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to authorizing the
          commissioner of health to establish nursing  facility  transition  and
          diversion Medicaid waiting lists per designated waiver region

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 6-a of section 366 of the social  services  law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph i to read as follows:
     3    I.  THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH IS DIRECTED TO ESTABLISH A WAITING LIST
     4  PER DESIGNATED WAIVER REGION ONCE THE FEDERALLY  APPROVED  CAPACITY  FOR
     5  THE  WAIVER  IS  REACHED.  THE COMMISSIONER SHALL DRAW FROM THE REGIONAL
     6  WAITING LIST TO ACCOMMODATE ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS ONCE CAPACITY ALLOWS IN
     7  EACH REGION. UNLESS THE COMMISSIONER CHOOSES TO PRIORITIZE CERTAIN POPU-
     8  LATIONS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED  TO  ELIGIBLE  PERSONS  TRANSITIONING
     9  FROM  NURSING  FACILITIES,  THE COMMISSIONER SHALL DRAW ELIGIBLE PERSONS
    10  WHO HAVE BEEN ON THE WAITING LIST IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY CAME ON  IN
    11  EACH REGION, PROVIDED THE ELIGIBLE PERSON RESIDES IN THE APPROVED WAIVER
    12  REGION FROM WHICH THE VACANCY OCCURRED.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14838-05-6