---
type: "Bill"
title: "Changes the effective date of provisions providing for fiscal intermediary certification under the consumer directed personal assistance program"
description: "Changes the effective date of provisions of a chapter of the laws of 2017 providing for fiscal intermediary certification under the consumer directed personal assistance program from immediately to 1 year after it shall have become a law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "S 5544"
citation: "New York S 5544 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["HANNON"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-04-07"
last_action: "2017-12-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/467626a6-b70b-400f-912b-9400e58ecb34"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/S5544"
source_hash: "bdbb69e27377c3b7555595735ae609d365615ed775ab9ac262449915f39ab434"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 5544 (2017-2018) — Changes the effective date of provisions providing for fiscal intermediary certification under the consumer directed personal assistance program

Changes the effective date of provisions of a chapter of the laws of 2017 providing for fiscal intermediary certification under the consumer directed personal assistance program from immediately to 1 year after it shall have become a law.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S5544 HTML** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S5544&term=2017&Text=Y)
2. **S5544 PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2017/S5544)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **133–1** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — **62–0** (pass) · upper
- Health Vote — **17–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- HANNON — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-04-07** REFERRED TO HEALTH `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-25** 1ST REPORT CAL.650
- **2017-04-26** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2017-05-01** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2017-05-23** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2017-05-23** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2017-05-23** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-24** SUBSTITUTED FOR A7216
- **2017-05-24** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.459
- **2017-05-24** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2017-05-24** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2017-12-06** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2017-12-18** SIGNED CHAP.488 `executive-signature`
- **2017-12-18** APPROVAL MEMO.54

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/467626a6-b70b-400f-912b-9400e58ecb34`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).