Bill Text: NY S01578 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
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
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1578--B Cal. No. 113 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 13, 2021 ___________ 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. LBD00231-04-1