Bill Text: NY A05849 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that when a public assistance recipient, receiving care or treatment for alcohol or other drug addiction, moves from one social services district to another such district, the social services district from which the recipient moved shall remain responsible for such benefits for 180 days or until treatment is completed, whichever shall be sooner.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to social services [A05849 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A05849-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5849
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     March 5, 2015
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       Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Social Services
       AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation  to  responsibility
         for public assistance and care
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 62 of the social services  law  is
    2  amended by adding a new paragraph (h) to read as follows:
    3    (H)  NOTWITHSTANDING  THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVI-
    4  SION, IN THE EVENT A RECIPIENT  OF  PUBLIC  ASSISTANCE  MOVES  FROM  ONE
    5  SOCIAL  SERVICES  DISTRICT  TO ANOTHER SUCH DISTRICT IN ORDER TO RECEIVE
    6  CARE OR TREATMENT FOR ALCOHOL OR OTHER DRUG ADDICTION, THE DISTRICT FROM
    7  WHICH SUCH RECIPIENT MOVED  SHALL  BE  RESPONSIBLE  FOR  CONTINUING  THE
    8  NECESSARY SOCIAL SERVICES BENEFITS TO SAID RECIPIENT FOR A PERIOD OF ONE
    9  HUNDRED  EIGHTY  DAYS BEGINNING WHEN THE RECIPIENT ENTERS INTO A PROGRAM
   10  OF CARE OR TREATMENT, OR AS LONG AS SAID RECIPIENT REMAINS IN SUCH  CARE
   11  OR TREATMENT, WHICHEVER IS SHORTER. SUCH BENEFITS SHALL INCLUDE THE COST
   12  OF CARE OR TREATMENT IN A FACILITY CERTIFIED BY THE OFFICE OF ALCOHOLISM
   13  AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES FOR IN-PATIENT OR OUT-PATIENT SERVICES, AND
   14  THE  COST  OF  HOUSING  PROVIDED  TO SAID RECIPIENT EITHER AS PART OF AN
   15  IN-PATIENT PROGRAM OR WHILE BEING PROVIDED  WITH  OUT-PATIENT  SERVICES,
   16  SUBJECT TO THE ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY DAY LIMITATION.
   17    S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
   18  ing 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.
                                                                  LBD04599-01-5