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New YorkS 70702025-2026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET
Provides for emergency appropriation for the period April 1, 2025 through April 3, 2025
Sponsored By: Liz Krueger (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
10 provisions identified: 7 benefits, 1 costs, 2 mixed.
Family-care residents get personal needs support
Beginning April 1, 2025, family-care funds can pay for substitute caretakers for up to 14 days. Eligible clients in New York family-care homes can also receive up to $774 per year for personal needs. Personal-needs payments depend on financial need; the law does not set a formula for each client’s payment.
Interim funding keeps Medicaid services running
Beginning April 1, 2025, Medicaid gets $137.631 million for care outside institutions and related spending, including earlier bills. Another $150.829 million supports managed care, care planning, accessible primary care, integrated care systems, and electronic health records. State mental health, developmental disability, and addiction facilities receive $83.4 million for Medicaid medical services. Funding includes $10.372 million for hospital outpatient and emergency care, plus $16.967 million for clinics. Transportation gets $12.235 million and dental care gets $1.422 million; these appropriations do not change eligibility or individual benefit amounts.
Medicaid funding supports long-term care
Beginning April 1, 2025, the law provides $79.359 million for Medicaid nursing-home care. It also provides $132.394 million for long-term care outside nursing homes. The money supports covered care and provider payments, without changing eligibility or setting an individual benefit amount.
Funding keeps unemployment benefit payments flowing
Beginning April 1, 2025, the law provides $165 million for unemployment benefit payments. Recipients must qualify under New York unemployment law or an applicable federally authorized unemployment program. This funding does not change benefit amounts or eligibility rules.
Interim funding keeps state paychecks flowing
The law provides $279.93 million for executive-branch payrolls scheduled April 1–3, 2025, including bills for work before April 1. Covered workers include participants in specified state-run special employment, work-for-pay, and sheltered-workshop programs. Another $10 million pays ordinary operating costs incurred April 1–3 for purposes authorized in the 2024–2025 budget. Employee-related funding totals $20.65 million: $20.3 million for state Social Security contributions and $350,000 for the commuter transportation mobility tax. These are state-paid obligations, not new household tax rates.
Medicaid drug funding carries spending limits
Beginning April 1, 2025, the law provides $92.616 million for Medicaid pharmacy services. This money cannot pay for drugs not explicitly authorized by previously enacted law or rules, unless the Budget Director approves. The restriction controls state spending; it does not create a new payment duty for Medicaid patients.
Funding sustains adult community mental healthcare
Beginning April 1, 2025, adult community mental healthcare gets $94.917 million, including residential programs and new transitional stepdown units. Payments cover local program years starting January 1 or July 1, 2025; January-year agencies can receive January 1, 2026 advances. With Budget Director approval, the mental health commissioner can continue county contracts signed by March 31, 2025, and related state-aid payments. Those contracts must support services for people with mental illness; continuation does not require competitive bidding or requests for proposals. While the appropriation applies, the commissioner can appoint temporary operators for funded residential programs using the legally required appointment process.
Housing services funded for homeless veterans
Beginning April 1, 2025, the law provides $42,000 from New York’s Homeless Veterans Assistance Fund. The money pays for housing-related services and expenses for homeless veterans. The law does not set individual assistance amounts or the number of veterans served.
State limits psychiatric emergency program applicants
Beginning April 1, 2025, until July 1, 2026, the mental health commissioner alone decides who can apply for program approval. This applies to hospitals, local governments, and voluntary agencies seeking to run comprehensive psychiatric emergency programs. Only designated providers can apply and be considered for an operating certificate.
Resident funds can pay for care
Beginning April 1, 2025, qualifying facility directors can continue using residents’ managed funds for their care and treatment. The facility must be licensed, but not operated, by New York’s mental health office. The director must be the resident’s federally appointed representative payee and have taken responsibility for managing the money. Federal rules still apply, and spending on care can leave less money for other personal needs.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Liz Krueger
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
committee vote • 4/1/2025
Rules Committee Vote
Yes: 21 • No: 0
Senate vote • 4/1/2025
FLOOR Vote
Yes: 63 • No: 0
House vote • 4/1/2025
Assembly floor vote
Yes: 144 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
SIGNED CHAP.113
4/1/2025SenateDELIVERED TO GOVERNOR
4/1/2025SenateRETURNED TO SENATE
4/1/2025HousePASSED ASSEMBLY
4/1/2025HouseMESSAGE OF NECESSITY - 3 DAY MESSAGE
4/1/2025HouseMESSAGE OF NECESSITY - APPROPRIATION
4/1/2025HouseORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.134
4/1/2025HouseSUBSTITUTED FOR A7515
4/1/2025HouseREFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS
4/1/2025HouseDELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
4/1/2025SenatePASSED SENATE
4/1/2025SenateMESSAGE OF NECESSITY - 3 DAY MESSAGE
4/1/2025SenateMESSAGE OF NECESSITY - APPROPRIATION
4/1/2025SenateORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.620
4/1/2025SenateREFERRED TO RULES
3/31/2025Senate
Bill Text
Original
3/31/2025
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