Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Dec 21, 2015 |
approval memo.23 signed chap.566 |
Dec 09, 2015 |
delivered to governor |
Jun 18, 2015 |
returned to assembly passed senate substituted for s3757 |
Jun 01, 2015 |
referred to finance delivered to senate passed assembly |
May 29, 2015 |
advanced to third reading cal.487 |
May 27, 2015 |
reported |
May 04, 2015 |
reported referred to ways and means |
Apr 28, 2015 |
reported referred to codes |
Feb 10, 2015 |
referred to governmental operations |
Assembly Bill A5056
Signed By Governor2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
HEVESI
Archive: Last Bill Status - Signed by Governor
- 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
Votes
co-Sponsors
Ellen C. Jaffee
John T. McDonald III
Matthew Titone
Steven Otis
multi-Sponsors
William A. Barclay
Edward Braunstein
James F. Brennan
Vivian Cook
2015-A5056 (ACTIVE) - Details
2015-A5056 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5056 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 10, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the state finance law and the public authorities law, in relation to authorizing an enterprise approach to the detection and prevention of fraud, waste and abuse in state government and the detection and prevention of improper payments of public moneys THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Legislative findings. (a) Fraud, waste, abuse and improper payments are pervasive, and often on the rise, in many government programs. (1) According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the 2011 Medicaid improper payment rate was 8.1%; (2) According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), over $70 billion in improper payments are made each year in Medicaid and Medi- care; (3) According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the 2011 unemployment insurance payment error rate was 11.2%, resulting in $5.7 billion of improper payments; (4) According to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the tax gap for federal income tax is at least $270 billion per year; (5) In the 2012 filing season, IRS estimated losses due to identity theft alone at $5 billion, and detected an additional $12 billion. (b) Entities involved in perpetrating fraud and abuse of government programs are becoming increasingly more sophisticated in their schemes and tactics, and often work in organized and collusive fraud rings or networks to attack any and all government programs. The fraud schemes can be massive, as illustrated in the following recent cases: (1) October 2010: 73 defendants, $163 million in false Medicare/Medicaid billings, Armenian-American fraud ring; EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04637-02-5
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