Bill Text: NY A05183 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to calculating social services district medical assistance expenditure amounts.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to health [A05183 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05183-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5183

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 11, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. PAULIN, LUPARDO, MAGNARELLI, ABINANTI, GALEF,
          THIELE,  GUNTHER,  ZEBROWSKI,  OTIS,  SANTABARBARA,  STIRPE,  WOERNER,
          J. M. GIGLIO, BRONSON, LAVINE, RAMOS, BARRETT -- Multi-Sponsored by --
          M.  of  A. BARCLAY, BLANKENBUSH, FITZPATRICK, FRIEND, GOODELL, HAWLEY,
          McDONOUGH, MONTESANO, PALMESANO, RA -- read once and referred  to  the
          Committee on Health

        AN  ACT  to  amend part C of chapter 58 of the laws of 2005, relating to
          authorizing reimbursements for expenditures made by or  on  behalf  of
          social services districts for medical assistance for needy persons and
          the administration thereof, and to amend the general municipal law, in
          relation  to  calculating  social services district medical assistance
          expenditure amounts

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision (c-1) of section 1 of part C of chapter 58 of
     2  the laws of 2005, relating to authorizing  reimbursements  for  expendi-
     3  tures  made  by  or  on  behalf of social services districts for medical
     4  assistance for needy persons and the administration thereof, as added by
     5  section 1 of part F of chapter 56 of the laws of  2012,  is  amended  to
     6  read as follows:
     7    (c-1)  Notwithstanding  any  provisions  of  subdivision  (c)  of this
     8  section to the contrary, effective April 1, 2013, for the period January
     9  1, 2013 through December 31, 2013 and for each calendar year thereafter,
    10  the medical  assistance  expenditure  amount  for  the  social  services
    11  district for such period shall be [equal to] the greater of (i) zero; or
    12  (ii)  the previous calendar year's medical assistance expenditure amount
    13  minus five percent of the medical assistance expenditure amount for  the
    14  period January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020, except that:
    15    (1)  for  the  period  January  1, 2013 through December 31, 2013, the
    16  previous calendar year medical assistance  expenditure  amount  will  be
    17  increased by 2%;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 5183                             2

     1    (2)  for  the  period  January  1, 2014 through December 31, 2014, the
     2  previous calendar year medical assistance  expenditure  amount  will  be
     3  increased by 1%; and
     4    (3)  for  the  period  January  1, 2021 through December 31, 2021, the
     5  previous calendar year medical assistance  expenditure  amount  will  be
     6  unchanged.
     7    §  2.  Paragraph  (c)  of  subdivision 3 of section 3-c of the general
     8  municipal law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (viii) to read  as
     9  follows:
    10    (viii)  Subtract  the  amount  that  the  prior  fiscal year's medical
    11  assistance expenditure amount exceeds the current fiscal year's  medical
    12  assistance  expenditure  amount,  provided that this shall only apply to
    13  counties and shall only apply to fiscal years that begin after two thou-
    14  sand twenty.
    15    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.