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A 6028: Increases the personal needs allowance for residents of certain residential health care facilities from fifty-five dollars to one hundred dollars per month.
What A 6028 does, verified August 14, 2026
The proposed legislation aims to increase the personal needs allowance for residents of certain residential health care facilities. The current allowance is set at $100 per month, but the bill proposes to raise it to $1,100 per month. This change would benefit residents who require financial assistance to cover their personal expenses while residing in these facilities. The bill would take effect immediately, allowing residents to receive the increased allowance from the start.
Bill journey
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2In CommitteePending
3First Chamber FloorPending
4Second ChamberPending
5GovernorPending
6ChapteredPending
Last action: referred to social services (2026-01-07)Alert me
Quick answers about A 6028
- What is the current status of A 6028?
- As of August 14, 2026, A 6028 is recorded as "Introduced": it has been introduced and is waiting for its first committee hearing or floor vote. The last recorded action, on January 7, 2026, was "referred to social services".
- Did A 6028 pass?
- Not yet. A 6028 has been introduced and has not passed either house.
- Who wrote A 6028, and where is it now?
- A 6028 was authored by Asm. Jo Anne Simon with 7 coauthors. Its committee of record is Assembly Social Services.
Author and sponsors
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| Jan. 07, 2026 | referred to social services |
| Feb. 25, 2025 | referred to social services |
Latest bill textIntroduced version, February 25, 2025 · 205 words
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6028 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 25, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SIMON, DeSTEFANO, PALMESANO, TAYLOR, HEVESI, LUPARDO, SEAWRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to increasing the personal needs allowance for residents of certain residential health care facilities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subclause (A) of clause (ii) of subparagraph 10 of para- 2 graph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 366 of the social services law, as 3 amended by section 3 of part AAA of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, is 4 amended to read as follows: 5 (A) for the personal expenses of a resident of a residential health 6 care facility, as defined by section twenty-eight hundred one of the 7 public health law, the amount of [fifty-five] one hundred dollars per 8 month; 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08516-01-5
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