Bill Text: NY S04805 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


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

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S04805 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04805-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          4805
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 26, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens.  RANZENHOFER,  RITCHIE  --  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 are 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.
                                                                   LBD03084-01-9
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