Bill Text: NY A04899 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires the provision of a model health care proxy form to individuals applying for medical assistance except where doing so would impede the immediate provision of health care services.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-3)
Status: (Passed) 2011-09-23 - signed chap.512 [A04899 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A04899-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4899--A
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 9, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, GOTTFRIED, SPANO, BRONSON, MAISEL --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BOYLAND, CALHOUN, GLICK, LUPARDO,
McKEVITT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services
-- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to providing a
model health care proxy form to individuals applying for medical
assistance
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 366-a of the social services law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
3 1-A. EVERY PERSON MAKING APPLICATION FOR MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, AND EVERY
4 PERSON ON WHOSE BEHALF AN APPLICATION IS MADE, SHALL, IF INTERESTED, BE
5 GIVEN THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH MODEL HEALTH CARE PROXY
6 FORM BY THE PERSON TAKING THE APPLICATION, EXCEPT WHERE DOING SO WOULD
7 IMPEDE THE IMMEDIATE PROVISION OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES.
8 S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
9 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09113-02-1
