Bill Text: NY S03421 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 3421 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Makes care and services provided by licensed mental health practitioners eligible for coverage under the Medicaid program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2019-11-20 - VETOED MEMO.145 [S03421 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03421-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3421--A
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 6, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Health  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to making care and
          services provided by licensed mental health practitioners eligible for
          coverage under the Medicaid program
          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 (gg) to read as follows:
     3    (gg)  care  and  services  provided  by  mental  health  practitioners
     4  licensed  pursuant  to  article one hundred sixty-three of the education
     5  law acting within their scope of practice,  where  such  services  would
     6  otherwise  be  covered under this title. Nothing in this paragraph shall
     7  be construed to modify or expand the  scope  of  practice  of  a  mental
     8  health counselor, marriage and family therapist, creative arts therapist
     9  or psychoanalyst licensed pursuant to article one hundred sixty-three of
    10  the education law.
    11    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    12  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04769-03-9