Bill Text: NY A02481 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to increasing the reimbursement dictated pursuant to standards of payment for care provided foster children by three percent.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to children and families [A02481 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A02481-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          2481
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 20, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Children and Families
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the standards of
          payment for care provided foster children
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 398-a of the social  services  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    (6)  Notwithstanding  any  provisions of this section to the contrary,
     4  beginning the first of January next succeeding  the  effective  date  of
     5  this subdivision, the total reimbursement dictated pursuant to the stan-
     6  dards of payment for care provided to foster children shall be increased
     7  by three percent.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06707-01-7
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