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Assembly Bill A9567

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires information sharing between school districts and primary care physicians for managed care programs

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2011-A9567 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง364-j, Soc Serv L

2011-A9567 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires information sharing between school districts and primary care physicians for managed care programs where students have individualized education programs.

2011-A9567 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  9567

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 16, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Health

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  social services law, in relation to information
  sharing between school  districts  and  primary  care  physicians  for
  managed care programs

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 364-j of the social  services  law
is amended by adding a new paragraph (v) to read as follows:
  (V)  (1) MANAGED CARE PROVIDERS SHALL FACILITATE THE SHARING OF INFOR-
MATION BETWEEN LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS  WHERE
A  STUDENT  HAS  AN  INDIVIDUALIZED  EDUCATION  PROGRAM  AND  THE PARENT
CONSENTS TO THE SHARING OF SUCH INFORMATION.
  (2) ENROLLMENT COUNSELORS OR LOCAL  SOCIAL  SERVICES  DISTRICTS  SHALL
REQUEST  A  PRESCRIPTION  FOR ELIGIBLE SERVICES FROM A STUDENT'S MANAGED
CARE PHYSICIAN TO BE PROVIDED TO  THE  LOCAL  SCHOOL  DISTRICT  WHERE  A
STUDENT HAS AN INDIVIDUALIZED EDUCATION PROGRAM.
  S  2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
ments to section three hundred sixty-four-j of the social  services  law
made  by  section  one of this act shall repeal on the same date as such
section repeals.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14973-01-2

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