Bill Text: NY A02879 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to calculating social services district medical assistance expenditure amounts.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to health [A02879 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A02879-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2879 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 28, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, LUPARDO, LIFTON, MAGNARELLI, SCHIMMINGER, ABINANTI, GALEF, THIELE, GUNTHER, JAFFEE, ZEBROWSKI, GIGLIO, OTIS, BUCHWALD, SANTABARBARA, STIRPE, WOERNER, BRONSON, LAVINE, RAMOS, BARRETT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, BLANKENBUSH, CROUCH, FINCH, FITZPATRICK, FRIEND, GOODELL, HAWLEY, JOHNS, KOLB, McDONOUGH, MONTESANO, PALMESANO, RA, RAIA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend part C of chapter 58 of the laws of 2005, relating to authorizing reimbursements for expenditures made by or on behalf of social services districts for medical assistance for needy persons and the administration thereof, and to amend the general municipal law, in relation to calculating social services district medical assistance expenditure amounts The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision (c-1) of section 1 of part C of chapter 58 of 2 the laws of 2005, relating to authorizing reimbursements for expendi- 3 tures made by or on behalf of social services districts for medical 4 assistance for needy persons and the administration thereof, as added by 5 section 1 of part F of chapter 56 of the laws of 2012, is amended to 6 read as follows: 7 (c-1) Notwithstanding any provisions of subdivision (c) of this 8 section to the contrary, effective April 1, 2013, for the period January 9 1, 2013 through December 31, 2013 and for each calendar year thereafter, 10 the medical assistance expenditure amount for the social services 11 district for such period shall be [equal to] the greater of (i) zero; or 12 (ii) the previous calendar year's medical assistance expenditure amount 13 minus five percent of the medical assistance expenditure amount for the 14 period January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2018, except that: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05699-01-9A. 2879 2 1 (1) for the period January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2013, the 2 previous calendar year medical assistance expenditure amount will be 3 increased by 2%; 4 (2) for the period January 1, 2014 through December 31, 2014, the 5 previous calendar year medical assistance expenditure amount will be 6 increased by 1%; and 7 (3) for the period January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2019, the 8 previous calendar year medical assistance expenditure amount will be 9 unchanged. 10 § 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 3 of section 3-c of the general 11 municipal law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (viii) to read as 12 follows: 13 (viii) Subtract the amount that the prior fiscal year's medical 14 assistance expenditure amount exceeds the current fiscal year's medical 15 assistance expenditure amount, provided that this shall only apply to 16 counties and shall only apply to fiscal years that begin after two thou- 17 sand eighteen. 18 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that 19 the amendments to section 3-c of the general municipal law made by 20 section two of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and 21 shall be deemed repealed therewith.