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 ________________________________________________________________________ 956--A 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 9, 2013 ___________ 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.