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NY A10569
Bill
Status
3/13/2026
Primary Sponsor
Amy Paulin
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AI Summary
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Creates a new "pediatric palliative care center" classification within residential care facilities to serve patients under 21 with chronic, life-threatening illnesses who are not expected to survive past age 21
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Centers would provide respite care services and hospice program services while being exempt from certain nursing home requirements under section 4004 of public health law
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Makes these centers eligible for multiple funding sources including federal social services block grants, state supplementary assistance, hospice respite benefits, home and community-based services waivers, and nursing facility respite care funding
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Requires the commissioner to establish an enhanced reimbursement rate methodology for pediatric palliative care centers, contingent on federal financial participation
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Takes effect 120 days after becoming law, with immediate authority to develop implementing regulations
Legislative Description
Enacts the "pediatric palliative care act" to establish pediatric palliative care centers to provide palliative care to individuals who are under twenty-one years of age, have been diagnosed with a chronic, complex, life-threatening illness that is expected to shorten their life expectancy, and is not expected to survive past twenty-one years of age.
Last Action
referred to health
3/13/2026