Bill Text: NY A10461 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that dependents of military servicemembers who are transferred out of the state shall remain eligible for certain developmental disability services received under federal home and community based services programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-17 - substituted by s6915b [A10461 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A10461-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10461--A
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 27, 2016
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        Introduced  by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, DenDEKKER, GUNTHER -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Mental Health -- reported and referred to
          the Committee on Ways and Means -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to  eligibility  for
          dependents  of military servicemembers for certain developmental disa-
          bility services
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section
     2  67.09 to read as follows:
     3  § 67.09 Medicaid home  and  community  based  services  eligibility  for
     4            dependents of certain military servicemembers.
     5    A  dependent  of  a member of the armed forces of the United States or
     6  the organized militia of the state, who is  a  legal  resident  of  this
     7  state,  having  previously  been  determined to be eligible for develop-
     8  mental disability services provided by the federal Department of  Health
     9  and  Human  Services,  including waiver services provided under the home
    10  and community based services programs authorized under  Section  1915(c)
    11  of  the Social Security Act, shall retain eligibility for those develop-
    12  mental disability services as long as he or she remains a legal resident
    13  of  the  state,  regardless  of  having  left  the  state  due  to   the
    14  servicemember's military assignment outside the state, and as long as he
    15  or  she is otherwise eligible for such services. A dependent who resides
    16  out-of-state may be placed on the waiting list for  developmental  disa-
    17  bilities   services   if  the  dependent  left  the  state  due  to  the
    18  servicemember's military assignment outside the state.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
    20  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.
                                                                   LBD14473-06-6