Bill Text: NY A03696 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 3696 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires medical assistance be provided to victims of domestic violence to care for and treat any scarring resulting from the domestic violence incident.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to health [A03696 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A03696-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3696

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 28, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the  social  services  law,  in  relation  to  providing
          medical  assistance  to  needy  persons  for the care and treatment of
          scarring resulting from domestic abuse

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 5 of section 365-a of the social services law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows:
     3    (f) Medical assistance shall include physician services and any surgi-
     4  cal services, including plastic surgery, that are necessary to care  for
     5  and  treat  any  scarring or scar tissue that formed as the result of an
     6  incident of domestic violence as defined in section four hundred  fifty-
     7  nine-a of this chapter.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     9  it  shall  have become a law. Effective immediately, the commissioner of
    10  health shall establish rules for acceptable forms of proof of  an  inci-
    11  dent of domestic violence.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00882-01-1