Bill Text: NY S06486 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides for the state to fund the early intervention program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-20 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S06486 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06486-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          6486
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 20, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. LATIMER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to funding early  the
          intervention program
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 2557 of the  public  health
     2  law,  subdivision 2 as amended by section 9-a of part A of chapter 56 of
     3  the laws of 2012 and subdivision 3 as amended by section 7 of part B3 of
     4  chapter 62 of the laws of 2003, are amended to read as follows:
     5    2. The department shall reimburse the approved costs paid by a munici-
     6  pality for the purposes of this title, other than those reimbursable  by
     7  the medical assistance program or by third party payors, in an amount of
     8  [fifty]  seventy-five  percent of the amount expended in accordance with
     9  the rules and regulations of the commissioner[; provided, however,  that
    10  in  the discretion of the department and with the approval of the direc-
    11  tor of the division of the budget, the department may reimburse  munici-
    12  palities  in  an  amount  greater  than  fifty  percent  of  the  amount
    13  expended].  Such state reimbursement to the municipality  shall  not  be
    14  paid  prior  to  April first of the year in which the approved costs are
    15  paid by  the  municipality,  provided,  however  that,  subject  to  the
    16  approval  of  the  director  of  the budget, the department may pay such
    17  state aid reimbursement to the municipality prior to such date.  No less
    18  than ninety percent of the annual savings from this  early  intervention
    19  expenditure  reduction  to  local  municipalities, compared to the prior
    20  year early intervention expenditures shall be used for property tax levy
    21  reductions or property tax  rebates,  effective  in  the  local  munici-
    22  pality's  next fiscal year after the effective date of this subdivision.
    23  The minimum amount of annual property tax levy reductions resulting from
    24  savings achieved as defined in this subdivision, shall be determined  by
    25  the  comptroller  and transmitted to each local municipality one hundred
    26  eighty days in advance of the start of the fiscal  year  for  which  the
    27  property tax reduction is to be effective.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11956-02-6
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