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Assembly Bill A4551

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires that an application for medical assistance be filed for every inmate confined to a state or local correctional facility

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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:
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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