* § 364-e. Aid to families with dependent children homemaker/home
health aide demonstration projects. 1. Notwithstanding sections three
hundred sixty-six and three hundred sixty-eight-a of this chapter, the
department shall have the authority to enter into agreements with social
services districts for the purpose of conducting the demonstration
project authorized by section nine hundred sixty-six of the omnibus
reconciliation act of nineteen hundred eighty, designed to train and
employ persons eligible for and receiving aid to families with dependent
children benefits as homemakers or home health aides. Such persons shall
provide authorized services to elderly or disabled individuals, or other
individuals in need of services, to whom such services are not otherwise
reasonably and actually available or provided, and who would, without
the availability of such services, be reasonably anticipated to require
institutional care.
2. Participants in the demonstration project shall be persons who are
eligible participants as defined in subdivision (b) of section nine
hundred sixty-six of P.L. 96-499.
3. For purposes of this section, authorized services include part-time
or intermittent:
(a) personal care, such as bathing, grooming and toilet care;
(b) assisting patients having limited mobility;
(c) feeding and diet assistance;
(d) home management, housekeeping and shopping;
(e) health-oriented recordkeeping; and
(f) simple procedures for identifying potential health problems.
4. For the first year during which a person is employed by a project
authorized by this section, such person shall, notwithstanding section
three hundred sixty-six of this chapter, retain any eligibility for
medical assistance under a state plan approved under Title XIX of the
Social Security Act, which such person had at the time he/she entered
the project.
5. Expenditures made for services provided by persons participating in
this demonstration project shall be considered medical assistance
expenditures and shall be reimbursed in accordance with section three
hundred sixty-eight-a of this chapter.
6. This section shall be effective if, and as long as, federal
financial participation is available therefor.
* NB Expired June 30, 1986