Bill Text: NY A08104 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Makes care and services provided by licensed clinical social workers eligible for coverage under the Medicaid program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 28-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2019-11-20 - VETOED MEMO.149 [A08104 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A08104-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8104 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY June 3, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Health AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to making care and services provided by licensed clinical social workers eligible for coverage under the Medicaid program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the social services law 2 is amended by adding a new paragraph (gg) to read as follows: 3 (gg) care and services provided by clinical social workers licensed 4 pursuant to article one hundred fifty-four of the education law acting 5 within their scope of practice, where such services would otherwise be 6 covered under this title. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 8 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11665-01-9