S8742 • 2025

Provides for expanded non-medical in-home services, non-institutional respite services, case management services, and ancillary services without a prescription or physician's order; repealer

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Sponsor: Cordell Cleare
Last action: 2026-06-04
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Provides for expanded non-medical in-home services, non-institutional respite services, case management services, and ancillary services without a prescription or physician's order; repealer

Provides for expanded non-medical in-home services, non-institutional respite services, case management services, and ancillary services without a prescription or physician's order; repealer Provides for expanded non-medical in-home services, non-institutional respite services, case management services, and ancillary services without a prescription or physician's order; repeals certain cost sharing requirements for such services.

What This Bill Does

Provides for expanded non-medical in-home services, non-institutional respite services, case management services, and ancillary services without a prescription or physician's order; repealer Provides for expanded non-medical in-home services, non-institutional respite services, case management services, and ancillary services without a prescription or physician's order; repeals certain cost sharing requirements for such services.

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Bill History

2026-06-04 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2026-06-04 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2026-06-04 Assembly
REFERRED TO AGING
2026-02-09 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-02-05 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-02-04 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.231
2026-01-08 Senate
REFERRED TO AGING

Official Summary Text

Provides for expanded non-medical in-home services, non-institutional respite services, case management services, and ancillary services without a prescription or physician's order; repealer
Provides for expanded non-medical in-home services, non-institutional respite services, case management services, and ancillary services without a prescription or physician's order; repeals certain cost sharing requirements for such services.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          8742

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                     January 8, 2026
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to the provision of  expanded
          non-medical in-home services, non-institutional respite services, case
          management  services, and ancillary services without a prescription or
          physician's order; and to repeal certain provisions of such law relat-
          ing thereto

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

     1    Section  1. Paragraph (i) of subdivision 4 of section 214 of the elder
     2  law is amended to read as follows:
     3    (i) The director, within the amounts appropriated  therefor  and  with
     4  the approval of the director of the budget, may authorize a county which
     5  has  an  approved  home  care  plan for functionally impaired elderly to
     6  provide expanded non-medical in-home services, non-institutional respite
     7  services, case management services, and ancillary services  pursuant  to
     8  such plan. Such services shall be limited to those services necessary to
     9  meet  otherwise  unmet  needs  and  which  support such elderly persons'
    10  continued residence in their homes. Needs will be determined pursuant to
    11  a standardized evaluation of functional impairment, available  resources
    12  and  such  other  relevant  factors  specified  pursuant  to regulations
    13  promulgated by the director.  AGENCIES  PROVIDING  EXPANDED  NON-MEDICAL
    14  IN-HOME  SERVICES,  NON-INSTITUTIONAL  RESPITE SERVICES, CASE MANAGEMENT
    15  SERVICES, AND ANCILLARY SERVICES PURSUANT TO SUCH PLAN SHALL NOT NEED  A
    16  PRESCRIPTION  OR PHYSICIAN'S ORDER TO PROVIDE SUCH SERVICES. No expanded
    17  non-medical in-home services,  non-institutional  respite  services,  or
    18  ancillary  services shall be provided to any individual pursuant to this
    19  section unless such expanded non-medical in-home services,  non-institu-
    20  tional  respite services, or ancillary services are accompanied by ongo-
    21  ing case management services in accordance with regulations  promulgated
    22  by the director.
    23    § 2. Paragraph (k) of subdivision 4 of section 214 of the elder law is
    24  REPEALED.
    25    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    26  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11452-01-5