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                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 26, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. MOSLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Health

AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the modification
  of competitively bid contracts

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 365-l of the social services  law,
as amended by section 35 of part C of chapter 60 of the laws of 2014, is
amended to read as follows:
  9.  The  contract  entered into by the commissioner of health prior to
January first, two thousand thirteen pursuant to  subdivision  eight  of
this  section  may  NOT  be  amended  or modified without the need for a
competitive bid or request for proposal process, [and] OR without regard
to the provisions of sections one hundred twelve and one hundred  sixty-
three  of  the  state  finance law, section one hundred forty-two of the
economic development law, or any other provision of law[, to  allow  the
purchase  of  additional  personnel  and  services, subject to available
funding, for the limited purpose of assisting the department  of  health
with  implementing the Balancing Incentive Program, the Fully Integrated
Duals Advantage Program, the Vital Access Provider Program, the Medicaid
waiver amendment associated with the public hospital transformation, the
addition of behavioral health services as a managed care  plan  benefit,
the delivery system reform incentive payment plan, activities to facili-
tate the transition of vulnerable populations to managed care and/or any
workgroups  required to be established by the chapter of the laws of two
thousand thirteen that added this subdivision].
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  be  deemed  to
have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2014.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD10928-01-5