Provides for a financial exploitation, outreach, education and training program and fund. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: AGING

Provides for a real property tax cap for persons over 70 years of age; provides for notice to eligible property owners, application process, adult third party notice option, and conviction for willful false statements shall result in a fine of not more than one hundred dollars and disqualification from the tax cap. / Sponsor: RANZENHOFER Committee: AGING

Increases maximum income eligibility levels for real property tax exemptions for seniors. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: AGING

Authorizes a pooled purchasing program for certain services and commodities, including, but not limited to, liability and motor vehicle insurance. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: AGING

Authorizes certain county operated NY Connects: Choices for Long Term Care programs to participate in a universal assessment demonstration program funded pursuant to chapter 53 of the laws of 2011; targets those as potentially in need of respite, home delivered meals, and in-home services provided by the aging network and licensed home and community services and nursing home level of care. / Sponsor: VALESKY Committee: AGING

Eliminates the requirement that persons 65 years of age or older, who are eligible for a real property tax exemption, annually reapply for such exemption. / Sponsor: HANNON Committee: AGING

Establishes a veterans' gerontological advisory committee. / Sponsor: RANZENHOFER Committee: AGING

Enacts the "independent senior housing resident freedom of choice act" to authorize persons in independent housing, shelters and residences to receive services they could otherwise receive if they resided in a private residence. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee: AGING

Relates to increasing the combined household income limit for eligibility for a senior citizen rent increase exemption (SCRIE) where the head of household has a resident spouse. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: AGING

Requires the director of the office of the aging to develop materials for employees and volunteers relating to elder abuse awareness in social adult day services programs. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: AGING

Allows a property owned by at least one owner who is at least 65 years old or older to be eligible for an enhanced STAR exemption. / Sponsor: LARKIN Committee: AGING

Expands the program for elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage to the level of coverage provided prior to the 2011 budget. / Sponsor: HANNON Committee: AGING

Relates to establishing the New York state seniors trust fund and directing certain moneys to be deposited into such fund. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: AGING

Requires the office of children and family services to track and report elder abuse and to issue a biennial report to the governor and legislature regarding the incidence of elder abuse in the state. / Sponsor: KLEIN Committee: AGING

Authorizes localities to provide for an additional real property tax exemption for senior citizens who meet the income eligibility limits and other criteria to the extent of sixty percent of the assessed valuation of such real property. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee: AGING

Excludes social security payments and supplemental security income from the definition of "income" for the purposes of determining eligibility under the senior citizen rent increase exemption (SCRIE). / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: AGING

Creates the senior benefits card program to enable and encourage seniors to purchase healthy and appropriate foods at a discounted price. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: AGING

Directs the director of the state office for the aging to establish mature worker training programs for persons 55 or older who are seeking training to enable them to remain in or re-enter the work force; and provides for the awarding of grants to the providers of such programs. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: AGING

Relates to the financial exploitation of the elderly. / Sponsor: DEFRANCISCO Committee: AGING

Authorizes municipalities in the county of Suffolk to establish programs for providing real property tax exemptions and abatements to landlords of senior citizens for the units occupied by the senior citizen; such abatements shall be passed through to seniors in the form of rent reductions. / Sponsor: JOHNSON Committee: AGING