Bill Text: NY A07512 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of health to utilize only public employees in continuing and determining eligibility for the child plus progam, medical assistance program and family health plus progam.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to health [A07512 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A07512-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7512
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 14, 2009
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       Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Health
       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to determining eligi-
         bility  for  the  child  health  plus  program, the medical assistance
         program and 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. Subdivision 24 of section 206 of the public health law, as
    2  added by section 39 of part C of chapter 58 of  the  laws  of  2008,  is
    3  amended to read as follows:
    4    24. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law to the contrary,
    5  the  commissioner is authorized to receive applications and to determine
    6  initial and continuing eligibility for enrollment under the child health
    7  plus program established under title I-A of article twenty-five of  this
    8  chapter,  the  medical assistance program established under title eleven
    9  of article five of the social services law, and the family  health  plus
   10  program  established  under  title eleven-D of such article. The commis-
   11  sioner may exercise such authority with respect to all residents,  or  a
   12  subset  of  residents,  of  one or more local social services districts.
   13  [The commissioner is authorized to enter into  one  or  more  contracts,
   14  which  contracts  shall be procured on a competitive basis pursuant to a
   15  request for proposal process, for the purpose of exercising his  or  her
   16  authority  under  this  subdivision.] IN EXERCISING HIS OR HER AUTHORITY
   17  PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL UTILIZE AND EMPLOY ONLY
   18  PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR THE PURPOSES OF CONTINUING AND  DETERMINING  ELIGI-
   19  BILITY FOR THE CHILD HEALTH PLUS PROGRAM, THE MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
   20  AND THE FAMILY HEALTH PLUS PROGRAM.
   21    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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