Bill Text: NY S03339 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts "Vincent Scheppa's law" authorizing, in certain cases, the provision of private duty nursing services to a medical assistance recipient by a relative who is a registered professional nurse.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-12-28 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S03339 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3339
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 5, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  THOMAS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to authorizing,  in
          certain  cases, the provision of in-home private duty nursing services
          to a recipient of medical assistance by a relative who is a registered
          professional nurse
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
     2  365-o to read as follows:
     3    § 365-o. Provision of in-home private duty  nursing  services  by  the
     4  relative of a recipient. Upon application or request to the commissioner
     5  by  a  recipient  of medical assistance, or his or her representative or
     6  guardian, who has been approved for the  provision  of  in-home  private
     7  duty  nursing,  the  commissioner  may  authorize  the provision of such
     8  private duty nursing by an adult relative of such recipient, other  than
     9  a  spouse  of  the  recipient,  who  is a registered professional nurse.
    10  Reimbursement for private nursing services provided in  accordance  with
    11  this  section  shall  be  at  the  rate  paid  for the provision of such
    12  services by a licensed practical nurse.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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