NY A01408

Expands eligibility for personal assistants in consumer directed personal assistance programs to include adult relatives, attorneys-in-fact, health care proxies, and legal guardians of the eligible individual

Removes the previous restriction that prohibited any "person legally responsible for an eligible individual's care and support" from serving as their personal assistant

Maintains existing restrictions preventing a parent of a minor (under 18), spouse, or designated representative from serving as the eligible individual's personal assistant

Requires that services provided by relatives must be consistent with the individual's plan of care and cannot exceed the cost of equivalent services from a non-relative personal assistant

Directs the Commissioner of Health to seek additional federal funding to maximize federal financial participation in the consumer directed personal assistance program