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Assembly Bill A6101

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires the provision of transportation services to recipients of medical assistance to a safe location during pest control procedures at their residences

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2011-A6101 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง365-h, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:
A7843

2011-A6101 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the provision of transportation services to Medicaid recipients for the purpose of transporting eligible Medicaid recipients from their residences to a safe location during the provision of extermination or pest control services, and to subsequently return such recipients to their residence after completion of such services.

2011-A6101 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6101

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              March 7, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. KELLNER, ROSENTHAL, MILLMAN -- Multi-Sponsored by
  --  M.  of  A.  BOYLAND,  HEVESI,  MARKEY, WEISENBERG -- read once and
  referred to the Committee on Health

AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation  to  requiring  the
  provision  of transportation services to recipients of medical assist-
  ance for the purpose of transporting eligible  recipients  of  medical
  assistance  from  their  residences  to  a  safe  location  during the
  provision of extermination or pest control  services,  and  to  subse-
  quently  return such recipients to their residence after completion of
  such services

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

  Section  1. Subdivision 1 of section 365-h of the social services law,
as amended by section 20 of part B of chapter 109 of the laws  of  2010,
is amended to read as follows:
  1.  The  local social services official and, subject to the provisions
of subdivision four of this section, the commissioner  of  health  shall
have  responsibility for THE prior [authorizing] AUTHORIZATION OF trans-
portation [of] SERVICES FOR   eligible  persons  and  for  limiting  the
provision  of  such  transportation  SERVICES  to  those  recipients and
circumstances where: (A) such  transportation  is  essential,  medically
necessary  and  appropriate to obtain medical care, services or supplies
otherwise available under this title; OR (B) SUBJECT TO FEDERAL  PARTIC-
IPATION,  SUCH  TRANSPORTATION  IS  UTILIZED TO TRANSPORT A RECIPIENT OF
MEDICAL ASSISTANCE FROM HIS OR HER RESIDENCE TO A SAFE  LOCATION  DURING
THE  PROVISION  OF EXTERMINATION OR PEST CONTROL SERVICES, AND TO SUBSE-
QUENTLY RETURN SUCH RECIPIENT TO HIS OR HER RESIDENCE  AFTER  COMPLETION
OF SUCH SERVICES, WHEN SUCH TRANSPORTATION IS DEEMED MEDICALLY NECESSARY
TO ENSURE SAFE TRANSPORT OF THE RECIPIENT TO THE SAFE LOCATION.
  S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law; provided  that  effec-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00620-01-1

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