Bill Text: NY S00328 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to calculating social services district medical assistance expenditure amounts and to a county property tax levy reduction resulting from medical assistance program expenditure reductions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S00328 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00328-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         328--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  AKSHAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Local  Government  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend chapter 58 of the laws of 2005, relating to  authorizing
          reimbursements  for  expenditures  made  by  or  on  behalf  of social
          services districts for medical assistance for needy  persons  and  the
          administration  thereof;  and  to  amend the general municipal law, in
          relation to county property tax levy reduction resulting from  medical
          assistance program expenditure reductions

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 1 of part C of chapter 58  of  the  laws  of  2005,
     2  relating  to  authorizing  reimbursements for expenditures made by or on
     3  behalf of social services districts for  medical  assistance  for  needy
     4  persons  and  the  administration  thereof,  is  amended by adding a new
     5  subdivision (c-2) to read as follows:
     6    (c-2) Notwithstanding any provisions of subdivisions (c) and (c-1)  of
     7  this  section  to  the contrary, effective April 1, 2020, for the period
     8  January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020 and  for  each  calendar  year
     9  thereafter,  the  medical  assistance  expenditure amount for the social
    10  services district for such period shall be the greater of (i)  zero;  or
    11  (ii)  the previous calendar year's medical assistance expenditure amount
    12  minus 20% of the medical assistance expenditure amount  for  the  period
    13  January  1,  2019  through December 31, 2020, except that for the period
    14  January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020, the  previous  calendar  year
    15  medical  assistance expenditure amount will be unchanged. The provisions
    16  of this subdivision shall not apply  to  any  social  services  district
    17  containing a city having a population of one million or more.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05375-02-9
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     1    § 2.  The general municipal law is amended by adding a new section 3-e
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  3-e.  County  property  tax  levy  reduction resulting from medical
     4  assistance program expenditure  reductions.  Notwithstanding  any  other
     5  provision of law to the contrary, in the event a county's local contrib-
     6  ution to New York state's share of payments under the medical assistance
     7  program  are  reduced or eliminated as a result of changes in federal or
     8  state statute, the amount of such  reduction  or  elimination  shall  be
     9  applied  as an equal dollar amount reduction in the property tax levy of
    10  such county.
    11    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.