Bill Text: NY A09602 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 9602 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides that where the commissioner of health assumes the responsibility for the transportation of medicaid recipients in rural areas, existing public transportation systems shall be used when such systems are appropriate, available and the least expensive modes of transportation.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-01 - reported referred to ways and means [A09602 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09602-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9602
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 21, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. LIFTON -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health
        AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the transporta-
          tion of eligible persons residing in a rural area
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 4 of section 365-h of
     2  the social services law is designated paragraph (a) and a new  paragraph
     3  (b) is added to read as follows:
     4    (b)  Where  the commissioner of health elects to assume such responsi-
     5  bility from a local social services district,  and  after  any  required
     6  federal  approval,  authorized  transportation  for  an eligible person,
     7  whose originating location exists within a county  defined  as  a  rural
     8  area pursuant to subdivision seven of section four hundred eighty-one of
     9  the  executive  law, shall be assigned to an existing public transporta-
    10  tion system, as defined in subdivision one of section eighteen-b of  the
    11  transportation  law,  if  that system provides an appropriate, available
    12  and least expensive mode of transportation.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    14  have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to subdivision
    15  4  of  section  365-h of the social services law, made by section one of
    16  this act, shall not affect the expiration and repeal  of  such  section,
    17  and shall expire and be deemed repealed therewith.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11929-05-6