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Assembly Bill A5923

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to medicaid eligibility for youth leaving court ordered placement

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2015-A5923 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2877
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง364-i, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S6969
2011-2012: S3072
2013-2014: S956
2017-2018: A6972, S2697
2019-2020: A2927, S4205
2021-2022: A2417, A9256, S4766
2023-2024: S5748
2025-2026: S4167

2015-A5923 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to medicaid eligibility for youth leaving court ordered placement.

2015-A5923 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5923

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              March 9, 2015
                               ___________

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

AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to medicaid eligi-
  bility for youth leaving court ordered placement

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

  Section  1.  Section  364-i  of  the social services law is amended by
adding a new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
  9. YOUTH LEAVING COURT ORDERED PLACEMENT; PRESUMPTIVE ELIGIBILITY. (A)
NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE  CONTRARY,  YOUTH  WHO
HAVE  BEEN PLACED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION THREE OR FOUR OF SECTION 353.3
OF THE FAMILY COURT ACT, SHALL BE PRESUMED ELIGIBLE FOR MEDICAL  ASSIST-
ANCE  UNDER  THIS TITLE BEGINNING ON THE DATE OF THEIR RELEASE FROM SUCH
PLACEMENT.
  (B) SUCH PRESUMPTIVE ELIGIBILITY SHALL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLIER OF
THE DAY ON WHICH A DETERMINATION IS MADE WITH RESPECT TO THE ELIGIBILITY
OF THE YOUTH FOR ASSISTANCE PURSUANT TO THIS TITLE, OR IN THE CASE OF  A
YOUTH  FOR  WHOM AN APPLICATION FOR ASSISTANCE PURSUANT TO THIS TITLE IS
NOT FILED ON HIS OR HER BEHALF OR WHO DOES NOT FILE AN  APPLICATION  FOR
SUCH  ASSISTANCE,  SIXTY DAYS FROM THE RELEASE OF SUCH YOUTH FROM PLACE-
MENT ORDERED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION THREE OR FOUR OF SECTION  353.3  OF
THE FAMILY COURT ACT.
  (C) CARE, SERVICES AND SUPPLIES, AS SET FORTH IN SECTION THREE HUNDRED
SIXTY-FIVE-A  OF  THIS  TITLE,  THAT  ARE  FURNISHED TO A YOUTH DURING A
PRESUMPTIVE ELIGIBILITY PERIOD UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION BY AN ENTITY  THAT
IS  ELIGIBLE FOR PAYMENTS UNDER THIS TITLE SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE MEDICAL
ASSISTANCE FOR PURPOSES OF PAYMENT AND STATE REIMBURSEMENT.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
have  become  a  law; provided however, that effective  immediately, the
office of children and family services  and  the  department  of  health
shall  promulgate any rules or regulations necessary for the implementa-
tion of this act on such effective date.

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

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