This bill would create parity for New York's two Integrated Residential Communities as it relates to billing for services provided to people with developmental disabilities. LeadingAge NY supports this legislation.

This bill would enact the "Safe Staffing for Quality Care Act," mandating nurse staffing ratios in hospitals and nursing homes. LeadingAge NY opposes this legislation.

This bill relates to requiring a registered nurse on staff at facilities certified for enhanced assisted living or special needs assisted living. LeadingAge NY opposes this legislation.

LeadingAge New York supports this bill that would increase the monthly personal needs allowance to those residents of residential health care facilities receiving or eligible to receive additional state payments.

LeadingAge NY opposes this legislation which creates a temporary state commission to study and investigate the effects of closures of long-term care facilities on the residents of such facilities and their families.

Adds home care visits to the existing law that no health care employer shall require a registered professional nurse or a licensed practical nurse to work more than that nurse’s regularly scheduled work hours or home care visits.

This bill would permit Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs) to adopt written cybersecurity policies and self-certify that such policies are not inconsistent with the goals of the cybersecurity regulations promulgated by the Department of Financial Services (DFS) in 2017. LeadingAge NY supports this legislation.

LeadingAge New York strongly opposes A.10840/S.8835, which narrows the scope of important protections under the Emergency or Disaster Treatment Protection Act. This bill would subject providers to liability for good faith actions taken under crisis conditions to prevent transmission of the virus, to arrange for care, and to deliver care to non-COVID patients.