N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law § 13.24: Sheltered workshops, work activity and day training services

§ 13.24 Sheltered workshops, work activity and day training services.

1. As used in this section, the following terms shall have the

following meanings.

a. "Sheltered workshops" means a program operated for the purpose of

providing sheltered employment to persons with developmental

disabilities.

b. "Work activity and day training services" means pre-vocational

activities defined by regulation of the commissioner designed to enhance

the ability of a person with a developmental disability to receive

vocational rehabilitation services.

2. The commissioner shall develop methods to fund by agreement the

reasonably related cost of services, subject to the approval of the

director of the budget, provided in sheltered workshops, work activity

and day training services. The commissioner shall determine those

facilities and agencies providing such services and shall describe

characteristics of clients receiving such services. The commissioner

shall determine methods of improving the current financing system for

such services.

3. The methods of improving the current financing system shall

include, but not be limited to, the following:

a. Provision of equitable funding to all individuals with

developmental disabilities which is not dependent upon prior residence

in facilities of the office.

b. Establishment of systems of provider accountability for units of

service rendered in return for payments made and development of an

advanced payment mechanism.

c. Recommendation of rules, regulations and standards for the payment

for provision of services.

4. The commissioner shall report to the legislature on the progress of

determining methods of improving the current financing system on or

before April first, nineteen hundred eighty-two.