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NY A00080
Bill
Status
1/5/2011
Primary Sponsor
William Boyland
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AI Summary
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Authorizes the Commissioner of Health to adjust Medicaid payment rates for personal care services providers located in counties or cities (over one million population) with local living wage laws applicable to personal care services.
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Rate adjustments shall equal the difference between current hourly payment rates and the hourly rate required to comply with the applicable local living wage law.
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Requires personal care services providers receiving adjusted rates to use increased funds solely for paying statutorily-mandated living wages to non-supervisory workers, with written certification and Commissioner audit authority to ensure compliance and recoup misused funds.
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Adjustments become effective on the date a local living wage law takes effect and are subject to subsequent adjustment or reconciliation to maintain compliance with local living wage requirements.
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Defines "local living wage law" as any local law or authorized local resolution requiring a county or local government unit to include a specified minimum hourly wage in service contracts.
Legislative Description
Relates to the living wage adjustment of personal care service workers; authorizes the commissioner to adjust personal care services medical assistance rates of payment for personal care service providers; provides for such adjustments to be subject to subsequent adjustment or reconciliation in accordance with the local living wage law or are located within a city with a population of over one million persons which has enacted a local living wage law that applies to such persons; defines local living wage law.
Last Action
referred to health
1/5/2011