Bill Text: NY S03390 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 3390

Bill Title: Requires that services at addiction treatment centers operated by the office of addiction services and supports shall not be refused at such centers if a person is unable to pay.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-23 - ADVANCED TO THIRD READING [S03390 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03390-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3390--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 31, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Alcoholism  and  Substance
          Abuse  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the  payment  for
          services  at  addiction  treatment  centers  operated by the office of
          addiction services and supports

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  25.17  of  the mental hygiene law, as amended by
     2  section 12 of part G of chapter 56 of the laws of 2013,  is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4  § 25.17 Fees for services.
     5    Voluntary  agencies  and programs operated by local governmental units
     6  funded in whole or in part by the office shall establish, subject to the
     7  approval of the office, fee schedules for substance use disorder  and/or
     8  compulsive  gambling  services, including for such services at addiction
     9  treatment centers operated by  the  office  of  addiction  services  and
    10  supports,  not specifically covered by the rates established pursuant to
    11  article twenty-eight of the public health law or title  two  of  article
    12  five  of  the  social  services  law.  Such  fees  shall  be charged for
    13  substance use disorder and/or compulsive gambling services furnished  to
    14  persons  who  are  financially able to pay the same, provided, that such
    15  services shall not be refused to  any  person  because  of  [his]  their
    16  inability to pay therefor.
    17    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    18  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    19  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
    20  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
    21  on or before such effective date.

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