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A 7604: Establishes a direct support wage enhancement to employees that provide direct care support or any other form of treatment, to individuals with developmental disabilities and whose income is less than $125,000.
What A 7604 does, verified January 9, 2026
The state of New York is establishing a direct support wage enhancement program for employees providing care to individuals with developmental disabilities. The program will provide supplemental funding to enhance wages of eligible employees, with the goal of increasing their base wages and benefits. Eligible employees are those providing direct care support or other forms of treatment, and their income must be less than $12,525. The Office for People with Developmental Disabilities will establish a list of eligible employee titles and distribute an allocation of $4,000 per eligible employee to each provider. The funds must be used to enhance base wages and benefits of eligible employees, taking effect on April 1, 2025.
Bill journey
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2In CommitteePending
3First Chamber FloorPending
4Second ChamberPending
5GovernorPending
6ChapteredPending
Last action: referred to people with disabilities (2026-01-07)Alert me
Quick answers about A 7604
- What is the current status of A 7604?
- As of January 9, 2026, A 7604 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 people with disabilities".
- Did A 7604 pass?
- Not yet. A 7604 has been introduced and has not passed either house.
- Who wrote A 7604, and where is it now?
- A 7604 was authored by Asm. Rebecca Seawright. Its committee of record is Assembly People with Disabilities.
Author and sponsors
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| Jan. 07, 2026 | referred to people with disabilities |
| Apr. 01, 2025 | referred to people with disabilities |
Latest bill textIntroduced version, April 1, 2025 · 376 words
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7604 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 1, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SEAWRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on People with Disabilities AN ACT relating to establishing a direct support wage enhancement to employees that provide direct care support or any other form of treat- ment, to individuals with developmental disabilities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Direct support wage enhancement. 1. Notwithstanding any 2 other inconsistent provision of law, effective April 1, 2025, providers 3 licensed, funded, approved and/or certified by the office for people 4 with developmental disabilities to provide treatment, services and care 5 for individuals with developmental disabilities shall receive supple- 6 mental funding to enhance wages of employees that provide direct care 7 support or any other form of treatment, to individuals with develop- 8 mental disabilities and whose income is less than one hundred twenty- 9 five thousand dollars. 10 2. The commissioner of the office for people with developmental disa- 11 bilities, in consultation with the division of the budget, shall estab- 12 lish a list of eligible employee titles for such wage enhancement based 13 on the application of direct care to individuals with intellectual 14 and/or developmental disabilities. 15 3. Using the forms and processes developed by the commissioner of the 16 office for people with developmental disabilities under this section, 17 employers shall indicate the number of eligible employees based on the 18 list of eligible titles pursuant to subdivision two of this section. 19 4. The commissioner of the office for people with developmental disa- 20 bilities shall distribute an allocation to each eligible provider equiv- 21 alent to four thousand dollars per eligible employee based on the forms 22 developed pursuant to subdivision three of this section. 23 5. The funds distributed pursuant to this section must be used to 24 enhance base wages and benefits of eligible employees. 25 § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2025. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01000-01-5
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