Bill Text: NY A10707 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Makes care and services provided by licensed mental health practitioners eligible for coverage under the Medicaid program.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-20 - REFERRED TO RULES [A10707 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A10707-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10707--A
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 14, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON, MOSLEY -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health -- committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to making care and
          services provided by licensed mental health practitioners 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 (ff) to read as follows:
     3    (ff)  care  and  services  provided  by  mental  health  practitioners
     4  licensed  pursuant  to  article one hundred sixty-three of the education
     5  law acting within their scope of practice,  where  such  services  would
     6  otherwise be 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.
                                                                   LBD01543-07-8
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