Bill Text: NY A04285 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes mental health parity in the family health plus program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 49-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-09-04 - enacting clause stricken [A04285 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A04285-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        4285--A
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 2, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. P. RIVERA, GOTTFRIED, CANESTRARI, CLARK, GUNTHER,
         DINOWITZ,   WEISENBERG,  ENGLEBRIGHT,  SCARBOROUGH,  JACOBS,  McENENY,
         COLTON, CAHILL, KAVANAGH, LUPARDO, ABINANTI -- Multi-Sponsored  by  --
         M.   of   A.  ABBATE,  ARROYO,  AUBRY,  BENEDETTO,  BOYLAND,  BRENNAN,
         BROOK-KRASNY, CAMARA, COOK, CYMBROWITZ, DUPREY, GALEF, GLICK,  HEVESI,
         HIKIND,  HOOPER,  NOLAN,  O'DONNELL,  ORTIZ,  PAULIN,  PEOPLES-STOKES,
         PERRY, RAMOS, REILLY, J. RIVERA, N. RIVERA, ROBINSON, ROSENTHAL, SWEE-
         NEY, TITUS, WEINSTEIN, WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in  accordance
         with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- reported and referred to the Committee
         on  Ways  and  Means  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered
         reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the social services law,  in  relation  to  establishing
         mental health parity for the family health plus program
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subparagraph (ix) of paragraph  (e)  of  subdivision  1  of
    2  section  369-ee of the social services law, as added by chapter 1 of the
    3  laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (ix) inpatient and outpatient mental health and alcohol and  substance
    5  abuse  services,  as defined by the commissioner, PROVIDED THAT COVERAGE
    6  FOR MENTAL  HEALTH,  ALCOHOL  AND  SUBSTANCE  ABUSE  SERVICES  SHALL  BE
    7  PROVIDED  ON  THE  SAME  TERMS  AND CONDITIONS AS THE COVERAGE FOR OTHER
    8  COVERED HEALTH CARE SERVICES;
    9    S 2. The commissioner of health is authorized to submit amendments  to
   10  the  state  plan  for medical assistance and submit one or more applica-
   11  tions for waivers of the federal social security act as may be necessary
   12  to obtain the federal approvals necessary to implement this chapter.
   13    S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
   14  the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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