Bill Text: NY S06655 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to services for individuals with traumatic brain injuries sustained after age twenty-one in rural areas.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-01 - referred to health [S06655 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S06655-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6655 IN SENATE February 3, 2016 ___________ Introduced by Sen. YOUNG -- 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 the services for individuals with traumatic brain injuries in rural areas The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2 2745 to read as follows: 3 § 2745. Counties with limited service capacity. 1. Notwithstanding 4 any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the commissioner and the 5 commissioner of developmental disabilities shall enter into a cooper- 6 ative agreement to allow the integration of individuals with traumatic 7 brain injury sustained after age twenty-one into programs certified 8 pursuant to article sixteen of the mental hygiene law in counties where 9 there is a lack of appropriate services for individuals with traumatic 10 brain injury. 11 2. Services available to individuals with traumatic brain injury 12 sustained after age twenty-one pursuant to this section shall include, 13 but not be limited to, medical, housing, vocational, educational, trans- 14 portation, social, personal care, family support, day program, community 15 re-entry, outpatient rehabilitation, habilitation and other essential 16 services. 17 3. Funding for services provided under this section shall be provided 18 by department of health Medicaid resources. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 20 have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediately, the 21 addition and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the 22 implementation of this act on its effective date is authorized and 23 directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13080-01-5