Bill Text: NY S00961 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the department of health to post, on its internet website, the state's medical assistance plan and all amendments thereto; provides that no provision of such plan shall take effect until it is posted on the internet website.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S00961 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S00961-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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961
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
(PREFILED)
January 5, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to directing the
department of health to post the Medicaid state plan, and any changes
thereto, on such department's internet website
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs (u) and (v) of subdivision 1 of section 201 of
2 the public health law, paragraph (u) as added by chapter 939 of the laws
3 of 1976 and paragraph (v) as added by chapter 474 of the laws of 1996,
4 are amended and a new paragraph (w) is added to read as follows:
5 (u) engage in research into the causes of rocky mountain spotted fever
6 and the prevention thereof and develop programs for the control of
7 ticks, insects and anthropods which act as vectors of disease affecting
8 man, within funds made available for such purposes[.];
9 (v) act as the single state agency for medical assistance pursuant to
10 section three hundred sixty-three-a of the social services law, [as
11 amended by this chapter,] with responsibility to supervise the plan for
12 medical assistance as required by title XIX of the federal Social Secu-
13 rity act, or its successor, and to adopt regulations as may be necessary
14 to implement this plan[.]; AND
15 (W) POST, FOR PUBLIC ACCESS, ON THE DEPARTMENT'S INTERNET WEBSITE THE
16 ENTIRETY OF THE STATE'S PLAN FOR MEDICAL ASSISTANCE AS REQUIRED BY TITLE
17 XIX OF THE FEDERAL SOCIAL SECURITY ACT, OR ITS SUCCESSOR, AND ANY AND
18 ALL AMENDMENTS AND CHANGES TO SUCH PLAN. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER
19 PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, NO PROVISION OF THE STATE'S PLAN FOR
20 MEDICAL ASSISTANCE SHALL TAKE EFFECT UNLESS AND UNTIL THAT PROVISION
21 SHALL HAVE BEEN SO POSTED.
22 S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
23 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04957-01-1
