Bill Text: NY A05854 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires any municipality which receives and responds to 4 or more calls for emergency medical service for an individual to report the circumstances of such calls to the local social services district and the office of the medicaid inspector general.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-16 - held for consideration in local governments [A05854 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05854-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          5854
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 20, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. GIGLIO, LAWRENCE, MORINELLO, McDONOUGH, NORRIS,
          SMULLEN, B. MILLER, SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the  Committee
          on Local Governments
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general municipal law, in relation to directing
          municipalities to  submit  a  report  to  the  local  social  services
          district  on  the circumstances surrounding the summoning of emergency
          medical services on four or more occasions for any individual during a
          thirty day period of time
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  general  municipal  law  is  amended by adding a new
     2  section 122-a to read as follows:
     3    § 122-a. Reports of frequent emergency medical service  calls  for  an
     4  individual.  1. Every county, city, town and village, which receives and
     5  responds to four or more calls or demands for the provision of emergency
     6  medical service, as defined in subdivision one of section three thousand
     7  one of the public health law, to any individual  during  any  period  of
     8  thirty  days, shall report the circumstances of each such call or demand
     9  and response to the local social services district  and  office  of  the
    10  medicaid  inspector  general, in such form as shall be determined by the
    11  commissioner of health.
    12    2. Every report submitted by a municipality  pursuant  to  subdivision
    13  one  of this section shall include such information as shall be required
    14  by the commissioner of health, including whether the individual for whom
    15  emergency medical service is being  summoned  appears  to  be  receiving
    16  adequate  care and support at his or her place of residence, and whether
    17  the summoning of emergency medical service appears to be unwarranted.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    19  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03642-01-9
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