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S10074 • 2025

Enacts "Vincent Scheppa's law" authorizing, in certain cases, the provision of private duty nursing services to a medical assistance recipient by a relative who is a registered professional nurse

Enacts "Vincent Scheppa's law" authorizing, in certain cases, the provision of private duty nursing services to a medical assistance recipient by a relative who is a registered professional nurse

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Sponsor
Siela Bynoe
Last action
2026-05-12
Official status
In Senate Committee
Effective date
Not listed

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Enacts "Vincent Scheppa's law" authorizing, in certain cases, the provision of private duty nursing services to a medical assistance recipient by a relative who is a registered professional nurse

Enacts "Vincent Scheppa's law" authorizing, in certain cases, the provision of private duty nursing services to a medical assistance recipient by a relative who is a registered professional nurse Enacts "Vincent Scheppa's law" authorizing, in certain cases, the provision of private duty nursing services to a medical assistance recipient by a relative who is a registered professional nurse.

What This Bill Does

  • Enacts "Vincent Scheppa's law" authorizing, in certain cases, the provision of private duty nursing services to a medical assistance recipient by a relative who is a registered professional nurse Enacts "Vincent Scheppa's law" authorizing, in certain cases, the provision of private duty nursing services to a medical assistance recipient by a relative who is a registered professional nurse.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-12 Senate

    REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

  2. 2026-04-27 Senate

    REFERRED TO HEALTH

Official Summary Text

Enacts "Vincent Scheppa's law" authorizing, in certain cases, the provision of private duty nursing services to a medical assistance recipient by a relative who is a registered professional nurse
Enacts "Vincent Scheppa's law" authorizing, in certain cases, the provision of private duty nursing services to a medical assistance recipient by a relative who is a registered professional nurse.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          10074

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                     April 27, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  BYNOE  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to enacting Vincent
          Scheppa's law authorizing, in certain cases, the provision of  in-home
          private  duty nursing services to a recipient of medical assistance by
          a relative who is a registered professional nurse

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

     1    Section  1.  This  act  shall  be  known  and may be cited as "Vincent
     2  Scheppa's law".
     3    § 2. The social services law is amended by adding a new section  365-q
     4  to read as follows:
     5    §  365-Q.  PROVISION  OF  IN-HOME PRIVATE DUTY NURSING SERVICES BY THE
     6  RELATIVE OF A RECIPIENT. UPON APPLICATION OR REQUEST TO THE COMMISSIONER
     7  BY A RECIPIENT OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, OR THEIR REPRESENTATIVE OR GUARDI-
     8  AN, WHO HAS BEEN APPROVED FOR THE  PROVISION  OF  IN-HOME  PRIVATE  DUTY
     9  NURSING,  THE  COMMISSIONER  MAY AUTHORIZE THE PROVISION OF SUCH PRIVATE
    10  DUTY NURSING BY AN ADULT RELATIVE OF SUCH RECIPIENT, OTHER THAN A SPOUSE
    11  OF THE RECIPIENT, WHO IS A REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL NURSE.  REIMBURSEMENT
    12  FOR PRIVATE NURSING SERVICES PROVIDED IN ACCORDANCE  WITH  THIS  SECTION
    13  SHALL  BE  AT  THE  RATE  PAID  FOR  THE PROVISION OF SUCH SERVICES BY A
    14  LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE.
    15    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09428-01-5