Bill Text: NY A08000 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to reimbursements for domestic violence services for programs effected by certain provisions of the 2019-20 budget.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to social services [A08000 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A08000-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8000 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 30, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to reimbursements for domestic violence services The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 131-u of the social services law, 2 as amended by section 3 of part J of chapter 56 of the laws of 2019, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 2. The department shall annually establish, subject to the approval of 5 the director of the budget, a daily rate of reimbursement for each resi- 6 dential program for victims of domestic violence, as defined in article 7 six-A of this chapter, certified by the department which provides emer- 8 gency shelter and services to persons eligible for such emergency shel- 9 ter and services pursuant to this section. A social services district 10 [financially responsible for a victim of domestic violence] shall reim- 11 burse a residential program for victims of domestic violence for the 12 costs of emergency shelter and services provided to such victim at the 13 daily reimbursement rate established by the department reduced by any 14 other state or federal funds provided for such reimbursement available 15 for such costs. Provided however, local social services districts and 16 residential programs for victims of domestic violence shall be reim- 17 bursed at one hundred percent for any additional costs incurred provid- 18 ing shelter and services to victims of domestic violence as a result of 19 amendments made to this section pursuant to sections one and two of part 20 J of chapter fifty-six of the laws of two thousand nineteen. Provided 21 however, such funds utilized by the state for such reimbursement shall 22 not reduce expenditures provided for state services eligible under title 23 XX of the federal social security act. 24 § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2020. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11689-01-9