Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: AGING

Creates the Mature Workers Support Program. /
Sponsor: Dinowitz Committee: AGING

Provides for a financial exploitation prevention outreach, education and training program and fund; authorizes the director of the office of the aging to award grants to qualified agencies to establish local elderly exploitation, outreach, education and training programs; outlines elements of such program. /
Sponsor: Englebright Committee: AGING

Requires senior citizens centers or community centers that provide services to elderly persons, in cities with a population of one million or more, to provide a person that is certified in adult cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to cover areas within such centers. /
Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: AGING

Grants a tax deferment for persons sixty-five years or over who own and occupy real property in a city having a population of one million or more persons. /
Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: AGING

Requires the appropriate rent control agency or administrative agency to send a notice of required renewal to each head of household currently receiving an exemption under the SCRIE program 30 days prior to the application renewal date. /
Sponsor: Dinowitz Committee: AGING

Relates to providing a rent increase exemption to persons with disabilities. /
Sponsor: Bing Committee: AGING

Includes assisted living residences within the definition of long term care facilities for certain purposes; requires assisted living residences to permit access to such facilities by the long term care ombudsman. /
Sponsor: Englebright Committee: AGING

Provides for annual adjustment by the commissioner of housing and community renewal of the maximum income threshold for eligibility for the senior citizens' rent increase exemption (SCRIE) and for the municipal property tax abatement for rent-controlled and rent regulated property occupied by senior citizens by any increase in the consumer price index (CPI); raises eligibility of income level from $24,000 to $30,000; excludes from the definition of "income" the out of pocket expenses for all medical and prescription drugs not reimbursed or paid for by insurance in determining eligibility for the real property tax exemption relating to the senior citizen rent increase exemption; the additional exclusions from income and the indexing are at local option. /
Sponsor: Pheffer Committee: AGING

Permits support from contiguous areas to provide required matching funds for grants under the naturally occurring retirement community supportive service program. /
Sponsor: Dinowitz Committee: AGING

Relates to requirements for continuing care retirement communities. /
Sponsor: Dinowitz Committee: AGING

Relates to pre-admission reports for persons entering assisted living residences; permits reports to be made by a physician assistant or a nurse practitioner. /
Sponsor: Gottfried Committee: AGING

Includes assisted living residences within the definition of long term care facilities for certain purposes; requires assisted living residences to permit access to such facilities by the long term care ombudsman. /
Sponsor: Englebright Committee: AGING

Provides for a simplified definition of income for senior citizens for real property taxation purposes; defines income as federal adjusted gross less distributions from an IRA. /
Sponsor: Hayes Committee: AGING

Provides that the real property tax assessment on property owned by a person 70 years of age or older may be capped at last year's assessment; such assessment shall not be increased as long as ownership remains the same; takes effect sixty days after enactment; requires that it must be adopted by entity selecting assessor. /
Sponsor: Hayes Committee: AGING

Relates to grants established for local elderly abuse education and outreach programs, like the "Triad Programs". /
Sponsor: Kavanagh Committee: AGING

Provides for the establishment of a senior care choices program to give care and services at home to senior citizens; sets criteria for such program; directs application for a federal waiver. /
Sponsor: Englebright Committee: AGING

Relates to establishing the NYS prescription medication cost containment program. /
Sponsor: Dinowitz Committee: AGING

Provides for the yearly transfer of funds in an amount of up to one million dollars for use by the director of the office for the aging for services and expenses of the Finger Lakes Geriatric Education Center, the Consortium of New York Geriatric Care Centers, and the Long Island Geriatric Education Center. /
Sponsor: Englebright Committee: AGING

Expands eligibility of the tax abatement for rent-controlled and rent regulated property occupied by senior citizens by permitting an exemption for rent increases above one-quarter of the combined income of all members of a household where such combined income is $18,000 or less. /
Sponsor: Brennan Committee: AGING