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Home/Bills/S 180New York · 2025–2026 Legislative Session
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S 180: Increases the amount certain individuals are eligible for when receiving enhanced residential care.

New York · Senate · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified May 18, 2026

What S 180 does, verified May 18, 2026

The bill aims to increase the amount certain individuals are eligible for when receiving enhanced residential care. It modifies the Social Services Law to specify that, starting January 1, 2026, eligible individuals receiving enhanced residential care will be eligible for a monthly amount of $1,856.00, and eligible couples will be eligible for twice this amount. The bill takes effect immediately.

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5GovernorPending
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Last action: PRINT NUMBER 180C (2026-05-18)Alert me
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Coauthors
Cordell ClearePamela HelmingSamra BroukDean MurrayJames Skoufis
Recent actions17 total · showing 5
May. 18, 2026PRINT NUMBER 180C
May. 18, 2026AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO FINANCE
Jan. 20, 2026REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
Jan. 08, 2026PRINT NUMBER 180B
Jan. 08, 2026AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO SOCIAL SERVICES
Full action history, 12 earlier actionsConnect Plus
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 8, 2025 · 209 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 180 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. PERSAUD, CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to increasing the amount certain individuals are eligible for when receiving enhanced residential care The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 2 of section 209 of the social 2 services law, as amended by section 2 of part H of chapter 56 of the 3 laws of 2024, is amended to read as follows: 4 (e) On and after January first, two thousand [twenty-four] 5 twenty-five, (i) for an eligible individual receiving enhanced residen- 6 tial care, [$1,637.00] $1,768.00; and (ii) for an eligible couple 7 receiving enhanced residential care, two times the amount set forth in 8 subparagraph (i) of this paragraph. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect December 31, 2025. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00864-01-5 
Text of S 180 as introduced, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions
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