Bill Text: NY A10665 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes peer recovery advocate telehealth services for reimbursement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - print number 10665a [A10665 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10665-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10665--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 24, 2020
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. L. Rosen-
          thal) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health --  commit-
          tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
          mitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  making  certified
          peer recovery advocate telehealth services eligible for reimbursement

          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 2999-cc of the public  health  law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (t-1) to read as follows:
     3    (t-1) certified peer recovery advocate services providers certified by
     4  the  commissioner of addiction services and supports pursuant to section
     5  19.18-b of the mental hygiene law;
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16732-02-0