Bill Text: NY S08720 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to making behavioral health care within nursing homes provided by licensed clinical social workers eligible for coverage under the Medicaid program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-10 - REFERRED TO RULES [S08720 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08720-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8720

                    IN SENATE

                                      July 10, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation  to  making  behav-
          ioral  health  care within nursing homes provided by licensed clinical
          social workers 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 (gg) to read as follows:
     3    (gg) behavioral health care within nursing homes as defined by article
     4  twenty-eight of the public health law and provided  by  clinical  social
     5  workers  licensed  pursuant  to  article  one  hundred fifty-four of the
     6  education law acting within their scope of practice, where such services
     7  would otherwise be covered under this title.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on April 1, 2021.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16521-02-0