Bill Text: NY A07840 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to grants for mental illness and chemical dependence treatment services during the pendency of a medical assistance eligibility determination.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-08 - print number 7840a [A07840 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A07840-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7840--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 28, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Mental Health -- recommitted to the Committee  on  Mental
          Health  in  accordance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2 -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN ACT to amend chapter 408 of the laws  of  1999  amending  the  mental
          hygiene  law  and  other  laws  relating  to enacting Kendra's Law, in
          relation to grants for mental illness and chemical  dependence  treat-
          ment  services during the pendency of a medical assistance eligibility
          determination
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Section 15 of chapter 408 of the laws of 1999 amending the
     2  mental hygiene law and other laws relating to enacting Kendra's Law,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    §  15.  (a)  Within amounts appropriated therefor, the commissioner of
     5  mental health shall provide grants to each county and the  city  of  New
     6  York, which  shall be used by each such county or city, to provide medi-
     7  cation, and other services necessary to prescribe and administer medica-
     8  tion to treat mental illness during the pendency of a medical assistance
     9  eligibility  determination.  Such  eligibility  determination  shall  be
    10  completed in a timely and expeditious manner as required  by  applicable
    11  regulations  of  the  commissioner of health. Counties or the city shall
    12  use such grants  to  provide  medications  prescribed  to  treat  mental
    13  illness  for  individuals  for  whom the process of applying for medical
    14  assistance benefits has been commenced prior to or within  one  week  of
    15  discharge  or  release and who[: (1)] are discharged from a hospital, as
    16  defined in section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law[, or (2) have received
    17  services in or from a forensic  or  similar  mental  health  unit  of  a
    18  correctional  facility  or  local  correctional  facility  as defined in
    19  section two of the correction law].
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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