Bill Text: NY S00124 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to calculating social services district medical assistance expenditure amounts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S00124 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00124-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           124

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sens. GALLIVAN, GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

        AN ACT to amend part C of chapter 58 of the laws of  2005,  relating  to
          authorizing  reimbursements  for  expenditures made by or on behalf of
          social services districts for medical assistance for needy persons and
          the administration thereof, and to amend the general municipal law, in
          relation to calculating social services  district  medical  assistance
          expenditure amounts

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (c-1) of section 1 of part C of chapter  58  of
     2  the  laws  of  2005, relating to authorizing reimbursements for expendi-
     3  tures made by or on behalf of  social  services  districts  for  medical
     4  assistance for needy persons and the administration thereof, as added by
     5  section  1  of  part  F of chapter 56 of the laws of 2012, is amended to
     6  read as follows:
     7    (c-1) Notwithstanding  any  provisions  of  subdivision  (c)  of  this
     8  section to the contrary, effective April 1, 2013, for the period January
     9  1, 2013 through December 31, 2013 and for each calendar year thereafter,
    10  the  medical  assistance  expenditure  amount  for  the  social services
    11  district for such period shall be [equal to] the greater of (i) zero; or
    12  (ii) the previous calendar year's medical assistance expenditure  amount
    13  minus  five percent of the medical assistance expenditure amount for the
    14  period January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022, except that:
    15    (1) for the period January 1, 2013  through  December  31,  2013,  the
    16  previous  calendar  year  medical  assistance expenditure amount will be
    17  increased by 2%;
    18    (2) for the period January 1, 2014  through  December  31,  2014,  the
    19  previous  calendar  year  medical  assistance expenditure amount will be
    20  increased by 1%; and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00208-01-3
        S. 124                              2

     1    (3) for the period January 1, 2023  through  December  31,  2023,  the
     2  previous  calendar  year  medical  assistance expenditure amount will be
     3  unchanged.
     4    §  2.  Paragraph  (c)  of  subdivision 3 of section 3-c of the general
     5  municipal law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (viii) to read  as
     6  follows:
     7    (viii)  Subtract  the  amount  that  the  prior  fiscal year's medical
     8  assistance expenditure amount exceeds the current fiscal year's  medical
     9  assistance  expenditure  amount,  provided that this shall only apply to
    10  counties and shall only apply to fiscal years that begin after two thou-
    11  sand twenty-two.
    12    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.