Bill Text: NY S00956 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to medicaid eligibility for youth leaving court ordered placement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-10 - PRINT NUMBER 956A [S00956 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S00956-Amended.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        956--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Health --  recommitted  to
         the  Committee  on  Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
         committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
         recommitted to said committee
       AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to medicaid eligi-
         bility for youth leaving court ordered placement
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  364-i  of  the social services law is amended by
    2  adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
    3    8. YOUTH LEAVING COURT ORDERED PLACEMENT; PRESUMPTIVE ELIGIBILITY. (A)
    4  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE  CONTRARY,  YOUTH  WHO
    5  HAVE  BEEN PLACED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION THREE OR FOUR OF SECTION 353.3
    6  OF THE FAMILY COURT ACT, SHALL BE PRESUMED ELIGIBLE FOR MEDICAL  ASSIST-
    7  ANCE  UNDER  THIS TITLE BEGINNING ON THE DATE OF THEIR RELEASE FROM SUCH
    8  PLACEMENT.
    9    (B) SUCH PRESUMPTIVE ELIGIBILITY SHALL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLIER OF
   10  THE DAY ON WHICH A DETERMINATION IS MADE WITH RESPECT TO THE ELIGIBILITY
   11  OF THE YOUTH FOR ASSISTANCE PURSUANT TO THIS TITLE, OR IN THE CASE OF  A
   12  YOUTH  FOR  WHOM AN APPLICATION FOR ASSISTANCE PURSUANT TO THIS TITLE IS
   13  NOT FILED ON HIS OR HER BEHALF OR WHO DOES NOT FILE AN  APPLICATION  FOR
   14  SUCH  ASSISTANCE,  SIXTY DAYS FROM THE RELEASE OF SUCH YOUTH FROM PLACE-
   15  MENT ORDERED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION THREE OR FOUR OF SECTION  353.3  OF
   16  THE FAMILY COURT ACT.
   17    (C) CARE, SERVICES AND SUPPLIES, AS SET FORTH IN SECTION THREE HUNDRED
   18  SIXTY-FIVE-A  OF  THIS  TITLE,  THAT  ARE  FURNISHED TO A YOUTH DURING A
   19  PRESUMPTIVE ELIGIBILITY PERIOD UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION BY AN ENTITY  THAT
   20  IS  ELIGIBLE FOR PAYMENTS UNDER THIS TITLE SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE MEDICAL
   21  ASSISTANCE FOR PURPOSES OF PAYMENT AND STATE REIMBURSEMENT.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD02822-02-4
       S. 956--A                           2
    1    S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    2  have  become  a  law; provided however, that effective  immediately, the
    3  office of children and family services  and  the  department  of  health
    4  shall  promulgate any rules or regulations necessary for the implementa-
    5  tion of this act on such effective date.
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