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 every assisted living facility to have at least one automated external defibrillator on the premises and have in attendance at all times, at least one individual certified in CPR. / Sponsor: FLANAGAN Committee: AGING

Establishes the New York state community initiatives project; defines terms; establishes the community initiative project program; provides for programs and services, and community initiatives project action plan; provides for an application for funding and a state community initiatives oversight committee. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: AGING

Requires various persons (similar to child abuse) to report financial exploitation of the elderly (sixty-two or older) to a social services official; directs the commissioner of children and family services to develop rules for the conduct of investigations and the protection of the exploited. / Sponsor: KLEIN Committee: AGING

Provides for reverse mortgage loans on co-op apartments. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: AGING

Extends provisions of law relating to the enriched social adult day demonstration program. / Sponsor: VALESKY Committee: AGING

Relates to calculations of enhanced STAR upon sale of a parcel of real property with such exemption. / Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: AGING

Expands supportive services to the elderly in naturally occurring retirement communities by enlarging target group through eliminating head of household requirement, and including more such communities by reducing the number of elderly needed to qualify. / Sponsor: VALESKY Committee: AGING

Establishes an elderly crime prevention and control trust fund to be funded by an initial appropriation and administrative assessment penalties on persons convicted of felonies when an elderly person is a victim; provides that the fund is to be administered by the division of criminal justice services which shall give grants to organizations who will set up programs to prevent crimes against elderly persons. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: AGING

Relates to the amount of dispensing fees paid to pharmacies in EPIC and Medicaid; establishes the dispensing fee at eight dollars per prescription for patients in long term care facilities, intermediate care facilities for the developmentally disabled, assisted living programs and any other residential care facilities in which prescriptions are dispensed in unit-of-use packaging. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: AGING

Provides that a person sixty-two years of age or older, who is a tenant of a dwelling unit located in a building which is located in the city of New York, and who is threatened with eviction because such building is subject to a cooperative or condominium conversion plan, shall be entitled to remain in occupancy of such dwelling unit. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: AGING

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

Establishes an intergenerational educational and mentoring service program in the state office for the aging to provide assistance by persons age 55 or older to students in elementary schools; details grant funding, based on appropriations; describes reporting requirements. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: AGING

Limits cost-sharing responsibilities of participants in the elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage program for both comprehensive and catastrophic coverages to no more than five percent of the eligible participant's gross income. / Sponsor: STAVISKY Committee: AGING

Makes certain persons (meeting certain income requirements) who are eligible for or receiving social security disability insurance (SSDI) benefits eligible for elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage. / Sponsor: KLEIN Committee: AGING

Creates a caregiver support program for grandparents and other older adult relative caregivers who are providing primary care for children aged 18 and under either formally or informally to provide technical assistance, counseling and other resources. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: AGING

Includes persons with disabilities (defined) within the definition of head of household for purposes of making them eligible for the senior citizens' tax abatement for rent-controlled and rent-regulated property. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: AGING

Makes reclassification of rent controlled dwelling retroactive to time of decrease in income of members of household of dwelling. / Sponsor: STAVISKY Committee: AGING

Provides that an employer shall not diminish the benefits granted a participant, or for which such participant is eligible, under an employer welfare benefit plan as such plan was in existence at the time of the retirement of such participant; defines terms. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: AGING