Bill Text: NY S02813 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 2813 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Exempts monthly assessments due from residential health facilities located in any area designated as a Health Professional Shortage Area or serving a medically underserved population and experiencing a medical assistance utilization rate of eighty-five percent or greater from interest or penalties for any period prior to October 1, 2017.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-25 - PRINT NUMBER 2813A [S02813 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02813-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 2813--A                                            A. 4041--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
                                    January 29, 2015
                                       ___________
        IN  SENATE  --  Introduced  by Sen. MONTGOMERY -- 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
        IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. ROBINSON -- read once and referred
          to  the  Committee  on  Health  -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT in relation to exempting monthly assessments due from residential
          health facilities located in any area designated as a  Health  Profes-
          sional Shortage Area or serving a medically underserved population and
          experiencing  a  medical  assistance  utilization  rate of eighty-five
          percent or greater from interest or penalties for any period prior  to
          October 1, 2017
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule or regulation to
     2  the contrary, monthly assessments due for any period prior to October 1,
     3  2017, from residential health facilities located in any area  designated
     4  as  a  Health  Professional  Shortage Area or serving a medically under-
     5  served population and experiencing a medical assistance utilization rate
     6  of eighty-five percent or greater as appropriately reported pursuant  to
     7  section  2807-d of the public health law on or before December 31, 2017,
     8  shall not be subject to interest or penalties as otherwise  provided  in
     9  such section 2807-d; provided, however, that the residential health care
    10  facility  must  either pay such amounts or enter into a repayment agree-
    11  ment for said amount with the commissioner of health under terms accept-
    12  able to such commissioner on or before March 31, 2018; provided further,
    13  however, that with  regard  to  all  assessment,  interest  and  penalty
    14  amounts collected by the commissioner of health by the effective date of
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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