Bill Text: NY A01151 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to reimbursement for non-medical transportation for individuals with a substance use disorder to receive peer support services.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-18 - print number 1151b [A01151 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A01151-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1151--B 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 13, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD, WOERNER, K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse -- reported and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means in accord- ance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to reimbursement for non-medical transportation for individuals with a substance use disor- der to receive peer support services The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section 2 19.18-d to read as follows: 3 § 19.18-d Reimbursement for transportation to peer support services. 4 The office shall establish reimbursement rates for non-medical trans- 5 portation for individuals with a substance use disorder to receive 6 services from a peer certified by the office of addiction services and 7 supports. As part of the development of such rates, the office, in 8 consultation with the department of health, shall pursue federal Medi- 9 caid participation and reimbursement. The office shall also consider 10 the use of any federal grants, including state opioid response grants 11 and supplemental substance abuse prevention and treatment block grants, 12 to support such reimbursement. Such reimbursement rates shall be estab- 13 lished by April first, two thousand twenty-five. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 15 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment 16 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation 17 of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 18 completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02502-06-4
