Bill Text: NY S01578 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Includes applied behavioral analysis provided by a licensed behavior analyst or certified behavior analyst assistant under standard coverage for Medicaid recipients.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-02-08 - SUBSTITUTED BY A299B [S01578 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01578-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1578--B
            Cal. No. 113

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 13, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  RIVERA,  ADDABBO,  MANNION, MAY -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Health -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and
          second  report,  amended on second report, ordered to a third reading,
          and to be reprinted as amended, retaining its place in  the  order  of
          third  reading -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance
          with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said  committee,
          ordered  to  first  and  second  report,  ordered  to a third reading,
          amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place  in  the  order  of
          third reading

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  social  services  law, in relation to including
          applied behavioral  analysis  under  standard  coverage  for  Medicaid
          recipients

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the social  services  law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (jj) to read as follows:
     3    (jj)  applied behavior analysis, under article one hundred sixty-seven
     4  of the education law, provided  by  a  person  licensed,  certified,  or
     5  otherwise  authorized  to  provide  applied behavior analysis under that
     6  article.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     8  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the  commissioner  of
     9  health  shall  make regulations and take other actions reasonably neces-
    10  sary to implement this act on that date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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