Bill Text: NY A05155 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prevents the commissioner of mental health from considering the source or availability of state share of medical expenses as a criterion for the issuance, expansion or renewal of an operating certificate.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to mental health [A05155 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A05155-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5155
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 20, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. BRENNAN, DINOWITZ, WEISENBERG, CLARK, ORTIZ --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, ABINANTI, COLTON, GOTTFRIED,
HOOPER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to preventing the
consideration of medical assistance as a criterion for the issuance of
an operating certificate
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 31.05 of the mental hygiene law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision (d) to read as follows:
3 (D) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, THE COMMIS-
4 SIONER SHALL NOT CONSIDER THE SOURCE OR AVAILABILITY OF STATE SHARE OF
5 MEDICAL ASSISTANCE AS A CRITERION FOR THE ISSUANCE, EXPANSION OR RENEWAL
6 OF AN OPERATING CERTIFICATE REQUIRED BY SECTION 31.02 OF THIS ARTICLE.
7 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09104-01-3
