Bill Text: NY A01797 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 1797 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Requires the superintendent of each department of correctional services facility to ensure that an application for medical assistance is filed for each inmate not less than 90 days prior to the inmate's release from such facility.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to correction [A01797 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A01797-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1797
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 12, 2011
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       Introduced  by M. of A. AUBRY -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Correction
       AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to requiring the  filing
         of an application for medical assistance for each inmate confined in a
         state or local correctional facility
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new  section  144
    2  to read as follows:
    3    S  144.  FILING OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE APPLICATIONS. THE SUPERINTENDENT
    4  OF EACH CORRECTIONAL FACILITY  SHALL  ENSURE  THAT  AN  APPLICATION  FOR
    5  MEDICAL  ASSISTANCE,  PURSUANT  TO  TITLE  ELEVEN OF ARTICLE FIVE OF THE
    6  SOCIAL SERVICES LAW, IS  FILED  WITH  THE  LOCAL  DEPARTMENT  OF  SOCIAL
    7  SERVICES  FOR  EACH  INMATE ELIGIBLE FOR SUCH ASSISTANCE AND CONFINED IN
    8  SUCH FACILITY NOT LESS THAN NINETY DAYS PRIOR TO THE DATE OF RELEASE  ON
    9  PAROLE OR CONDITIONAL RELEASE, OR DISCHARGE OF SUCH INMATE.
   10    S 2. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 510 to read
   11  as follows:
   12    S  510. FILING OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE APPLICATIONS. THE SHERIFF OF EACH
   13  LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY SHALL ENSURE THAT AN APPLICATION FOR MEDICAL
   14  ASSISTANCE, PURSUANT TO TITLE ELEVEN  OF  ARTICLE  FIVE  OF  THE  SOCIAL
   15  SERVICES  LAW, IS FILED WITH THE LOCAL DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES FOR
   16  EACH INMATE ELIGIBLE FOR SUCH ASSISTANCE AND SENTENCED TO CONFINEMENT AT
   17  SUCH FACILITY FOR A TERM OF MORE THAN  THIRTY  DAYS.  SUCH  APPLICATIONS
   18  SHALL  BE  FILED  WITHIN  SEVEN  DAYS OF EACH INMATE'S COMMITMENT TO THE
   19  LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY.  NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL BE DEEMED TO
   20  LIMIT THE OBLIGATIONS OF A LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY PURSUANT  TO  ANY
   21  OTHER PROVISION OF LAW.
   22    S  3.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
   23  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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