Bill Text: NY S00517 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to services for individuals with traumatic brain injuries sustained after age twenty-one in rural areas.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S00517 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00517-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           517
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
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        Introduced by Sens. YOUNG, LARKIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
        AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to the services for
          individuals with traumatic brain injuries in rural areas
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
     2  2745 to read as follows:
     3    § 2745. Counties with limited service capacity.  1.    Notwithstanding
     4  any  law,  rule  or regulation to the contrary, the commissioner and the
     5  commissioner of developmental disabilities shall enter  into  a  cooper-
     6  ative  agreement  to allow the integration of individuals with traumatic
     7  brain injury sustained after  age  twenty-one  into  programs  certified
     8  pursuant  to article sixteen of the mental hygiene law in counties where
     9  there is a lack of appropriate services for individuals  with  traumatic
    10  brain injury.
    11    2.  Services  available  to  individuals  with  traumatic brain injury
    12  sustained after age twenty-one pursuant to this section  shall  include,
    13  but not be limited to, medical, housing, vocational, educational, trans-
    14  portation, social, personal care, family support, day program, community
    15  re-entry,  outpatient  rehabilitation,  habilitation and other essential
    16  services.
    17    3. Funding for services provided under this section shall be  provided
    18  by department of health Medicaid resources.
    19    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    20  have become a law; provided, however, that  effective  immediately,  the
    21  addition  and/or  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the
    22  implementation of this act on  its  effective  date  is  authorized  and
    23  directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02546-01-7