STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           541
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health
        AN  ACT  to  amend the social services law, in relation to reimbursement
          for expenditures made by or on behalf of the county of Onondaga
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 368-a of the social services law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (aa) to read as follows:
     3    (aa) Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this chapter or any
     4  other provision of law to the contrary, reimbursement  for  expenditures
     5  made by or on behalf of the county of Onondaga authorized in relation to
     6  the  adoption  of  a  comprehensive  municipal  consolidation plan and a
     7  reduction in the county real property tax levy.
     8    § 2. a. The department of social welfare shall establish  the  Govern-
     9  ment  Modernization  and  Medicaid Reimbursement Pilot program to reduce
    10  the property taxes in the county of Onondaga by connecting the  adoption
    11  of  a  comprehensive  consolidation  plan  with a state take-over of the
    12  Medicaid costs.
    13    b. The department shall establish a five member commission to  oversee
    14  the  process  and to determine if the goals of the program are met. Such
    15  goals shall include, but not be limited to adopting significant  modern-
    16  ization  steps and cutting the tax levy comparable to the relief brought
    17  by state takeover of Medicaid expenses.
    18    c. The commission shall include the comptroller or his or  her  repre-
    19  sentative;  two  state and local government representatives appointed by
    20  the executive; one state and local government  representative  appointed
    21  by  the  senate  and  one  state  and  local  government  representative
    22  appointed by the assembly.
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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