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Jan 06, 2010 |
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Feb 05, 2009 |
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Assembly Bill A4551
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
AUBRY
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2009-A4551 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Correction
- Law Section:
- Correction Law
- Laws Affected:
- Add ยงยง144 & 510, Cor L
- Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
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A1797
2009-A4551 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Requires the superintendent of each department of correctional services facility to ensure that an application for medical assistance is filed for each inmate not less than 90 days prior to the inmate's release from such facility; requires the head of each local correctional facility to ensure that an application for medical assistance is filed, within 7 days of commitment, for each inmate sentenced to confinement for more than 30 days.
2009-A4551 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4551 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 5, 2009 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. AUBRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to requiring the filing of an application for medical assistance for each inmate confined in a state or local correctional facility THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 144 to read as follows: S 144. FILING OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE APPLICATIONS. THE SUPERINTENDENT OF EACH CORRECTIONAL FACILITY SHALL ENSURE THAT AN APPLICATION FOR MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, PURSUANT TO TITLE ELEVEN OF ARTICLE FIVE OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW, IS FILED WITH THE LOCAL DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES FOR EACH INMATE ELIGIBLE FOR SUCH ASSISTANCE AND CONFINED IN SUCH FACILITY NOT LESS THAN NINETY DAYS PRIOR TO THE DATE OF RELEASE ON PAROLE OR CONDITIONAL RELEASE, OR DISCHARGE OF SUCH INMATE. S 2. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 510 to read as follows: S 510. FILING OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE APPLICATIONS. THE SHERIFF OF EACH LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY SHALL ENSURE THAT AN APPLICATION FOR MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, PURSUANT TO TITLE ELEVEN OF ARTICLE FIVE OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW, IS FILED WITH THE LOCAL DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES FOR EACH INMATE ELIGIBLE FOR SUCH ASSISTANCE AND SENTENCED TO CONFINEMENT AT SUCH FACILITY FOR A TERM OF MORE THAN THIRTY DAYS. SUCH APPLICATIONS SHALL BE FILED WITHIN SEVEN DAYS OF EACH INMATE'S COMMITMENT TO THE LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY. NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL BE DEEMED TO LIMIT THE OBLIGATIONS OF A LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY PURSUANT TO ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW. S 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04417-01-9
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