Assembly Bill A5854

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires municipalities which receive 4 or more emergency medical calls in 30 day period for an individual to report such calls to the local social services district

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A5854 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §122-a, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A9307
2013-2014: A6006
2015-2016: A5287
2017-2018: A5028
2021-2022: A8480
2023-2024: A2466

2019-A5854 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires any municipality which receives and responds to 4 or more calls for emergency medical service for an individual to report the circumstances of such calls to the local social services district and the office of the medicaid inspector general.

2019-A5854 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5854
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 20, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. GIGLIO, LAWRENCE, MORINELLO, McDONOUGH, NORRIS,
   SMULLEN, B. MILLER, SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the  Committee
   on Local Governments
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general municipal law, in relation to directing
   municipalities to  submit  a  report  to  the  local  social  services
   district  on  the circumstances surrounding the summoning of emergency
   medical services on four or more occasions for any individual during a
   thirty day period of time
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  general  municipal  law  is  amended by adding a new
 section 122-a to read as follows:
   § 122-A. REPORTS OF FREQUENT EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE  CALLS  FOR  AN
 INDIVIDUAL.  1. EVERY COUNTY, CITY, TOWN AND VILLAGE, WHICH RECEIVES AND
 RESPONDS TO FOUR OR MORE CALLS OR DEMANDS FOR THE PROVISION OF EMERGENCY
 MEDICAL SERVICE, AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION THREE THOUSAND
 ONE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, TO ANY INDIVIDUAL  DURING  ANY  PERIOD  OF
 THIRTY  DAYS, SHALL REPORT THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF EACH SUCH CALL OR DEMAND
 AND RESPONSE TO THE LOCAL SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT  AND  OFFICE  OF  THE
 MEDICAID  INSPECTOR  GENERAL, IN SUCH FORM AS SHALL BE DETERMINED BY THE
 COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH.
   2. EVERY REPORT SUBMITTED BY A MUNICIPALITY  PURSUANT  TO  SUBDIVISION
 ONE  OF THIS SECTION SHALL INCLUDE SUCH INFORMATION AS SHALL BE REQUIRED
 BY THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH, INCLUDING WHETHER THE INDIVIDUAL FOR WHOM
 EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE IS BEING  SUMMONED  APPEARS  TO  BE  RECEIVING
 ADEQUATE  CARE AND SUPPORT AT HIS OR HER PLACE OF RESIDENCE, AND WHETHER
 THE SUMMONING OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE APPEARS TO BE UNWARRANTED.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03642-01-9

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