Bill Text: NY S05960 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Makes care and services provided by licensed clinical social workers eligible for coverage under the Medicaid program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2019-11-20 - VETOED MEMO.149 [S05960 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05960-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5960

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- 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 making care  and
          services  provided  by  licensed  clinical social workers 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 clinical  social  workers  licensed
     4  pursuant  to  article one hundred fifty-four of the education law acting
     5  within their scope of practice, where such services would  otherwise  be
     6  covered under this title.
     7    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     8  have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11665-01-9