File #: Int 1240-2023    Version: * Name: Requiring home-delivered meals be delivered each day of the calendar year.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Aging
On agenda: 11/2/2023
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring home-delivered meals be delivered each day of the calendar year.
Sponsors: Linda Lee, Crystal Hudson, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Lincoln Restler, Gale A. Brewer, Farah N. Louis, Althea V. Stevens, Shahana K. Hanif, Sandra Ung
Council Member Sponsors: 9
Summary: This bill would require the Department for the Aging (DFTA) to operate the home-delivered meals program, which is to maintain or improve the nutritional status of older adults who are unable to prepare meals, such that each older adult authorized to receive such meals, is provided with at least 1 home delivered meal a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. This delivery frequency would apply to all contracts between DFTA and a home-delivered meal provider that are in effect on or after the effective date.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1240, 2. Int. No. 1240, 3. November 2, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 11-2-23, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - November 2, 2023

Int. No. 1240

 

By Council Members Lee, Hudson, Gutiérrez, Restler, Brewer, Louis, Stevens, Hanif and Ung

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring home-delivered meals be delivered each day of the calendar year.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 2 of title 21 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 21-213 to read as follows:

§ 21-213 Home-delivered meals for older adults.

a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Authorized older adult. The term “authorized older adult” means a New York City resident aged 60 years or older, who has been deemed eligible to receive a home-delivered meal.

Home-delivered meal. The term “home-delivered meal” means a meal that a home-delivered meal provider delivers to an authorized older adult.

Home-delivered meals program. The term “home-delivered meals program” means the program operated by the department to maintain or improve the nutritional status of older adults who are unable to prepare meals.

Home-delivered meal provider. The term “home-delivered meal provider” means any entity that contracts with the department to deliver a home-delivered meal to an authorized older adult.

b. The home-delivered meals program shall provide each authorized older adult with at least 1 home delivered meal a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. This section shall apply to all contracts between the department and a home-delivered meal provider for delivery of home-delivered meals under the home-delivered meals program that are in effect on or after the effective date of the local law that added this section.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 180 days after becoming law.

 

 

 

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LS #13089

06/23/2023