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Assembly Bill A8916A

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Authorizes, in certain cases, the provision of private duty nursing services to a medical assistance recipient by a relative who is a registered professional nurse

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2017-A8916 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6054
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Add §365-o, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A3415, S3339
2021-2022: A4073, S238
2023-2024: A6975, S506

2017-A8916 - Summary

Authorizes, in certain cases, the provision of private duty nursing services to a medical assistance recipient by a relative who is a registered professional nurse.

2017-A8916 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8916
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 8, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to authorizing, in
   certain cases, the provision of in-home private duty nursing  services
   to a recipient of medical assistance by a relative who is a registered
   professional nurse

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new  section
 365-o to read as follows:
   §  365-O.  PROVISION  OF  IN-HOME PRIVATE DUTY NURSING SERVICES BY THE
 RELATIVE OF A RECIPIENT. UPON APPLICATION OR REQUEST TO THE COMMISSIONER
 BY A RECIPIENT OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, OR HIS OR  HER  REPRESENTATIVE  OR
 GUARDIAN,  WHO  HAS  BEEN  APPROVED FOR THE PROVISION OF IN-HOME PRIVATE
 DUTY NURSING, THE COMMISSIONER  MAY  AUTHORIZE  THE  PROVISION  OF  SUCH
 PRIVATE  DUTY  NURSING  BY  A RELATIVE OF SUCH RECIPIENT, SUBJECT TO THE
 LIMITATIONS RELATING THERETO  FOR  PERSONAL  ASSISTANTS  IN  SUBDIVISION
 THREE  OF  SECTION  THREE  HUNDRED  SIXTY-FIVE-F OF THIS TITLE, WHO IS A
 REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL NURSE, IN GOOD STANDING,  LICENSED  PURSUANT  TO
 SECTION  SIXTY-NINE HUNDRED FIVE OF THE EDUCATION LAW. REIMBURSEMENT FOR
 PRIVATE NURSING SERVICES PROVIDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS SECTION  SHALL
 BE  AT  THE  RATE  PAID FOR THE PROVISION OF SUCH SERVICES BY A LICENSED
 PRACTICAL NURSE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11506-02-7

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2017-A8916A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6054
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Add §365-o, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A3415, S3339
2021-2022: A4073, S238
2023-2024: A6975, S506

2017-A8916A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes, in certain cases, the provision of private duty nursing services to a medical assistance recipient by a relative who is a registered professional nurse.

2017-A8916A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8916--A
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 8, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. ABINANTI, THIELE, D'URSO, JAFFEE, RA, MORINELLO
   -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred  to
   the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to authorizing, in
   certain cases, the provision of in-home private duty nursing  services
   to a recipient of medical assistance by a relative who is a registered
   professional nurse
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new  section
 365-o to read as follows:
   §  365-O.  PROVISION  OF  IN-HOME PRIVATE DUTY NURSING SERVICES BY THE
 RELATIVE OF A RECIPIENT. UPON APPLICATION OR REQUEST TO THE COMMISSIONER
 BY A RECIPIENT OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, OR HIS OR  HER  REPRESENTATIVE  OR
 GUARDIAN,  WHO  HAS  BEEN  APPROVED FOR THE PROVISION OF IN-HOME PRIVATE
 DUTY NURSING, THE COMMISSIONER  MAY  AUTHORIZE  THE  PROVISION  OF  SUCH
 PRIVATE  DUTY NURSING BY AN ADULT RELATIVE OF SUCH RECIPIENT, OTHER THAN
 A SPOUSE OF THE RECIPIENT,  WHO  IS  A  REGISTERED  PROFESSIONAL  NURSE.
 REIMBURSEMENT  FOR  PRIVATE NURSING SERVICES PROVIDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH
 THIS SECTION SHALL BE AT  THE  RATE  PAID  FOR  THE  PROVISION  OF  SUCH
 SERVICES BY A LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11506-05-8

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