Senate Bill S4788

                             
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                                  4788--A
     Cal. No. 917
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 14, 2023
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 Introduced by Sens. RIVERA, MAYER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
   when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- recommitted
   to the Committee on Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
   reported  favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee
   on Finance -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first
   report, amended on first  report,  ordered  to  a  second  report  and
   ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of second report
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  social  services law, in relation to the use of
   transportation management brokers
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subparagraph  (vi)  of  paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 of
 section 365-h of the social services law, as added by section 2 of  part
 LL of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
   (vi)  [Responsibility for transportation services provided or arranged
 for enrollees of] PROVIDERS OF ADULT DAY HEALTH CARE  AND  managed  long
 term  care  plans  issued certificates of authority under section forty-
 four hundred three-f of the public health law[, not including] MAY ELECT
 TO, BUT SHALL NOT BE REQUIRED TO, USE THE SERVICES OF THE TRANSPORTATION
 MANAGEMENT BROKER. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, a program designated as a  Program
 of  All-Inclusive  Care  for the Elderly (PACE) as authorized by Federal
 Public law 1053-33, subtitle I of title IV of the Balanced Budget Act of
 1997[, and, at the commissioner's discretion, other plans that integrate
 benefits for dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid  beneficiaries  based
 on  a  demonstration by the plan that inclusion of transportation within
 the benefit  package  will  result  in  cost  efficiencies  and  quality
 improvement,  shall be transferred to a transportation management broker
 that has a contract with the commissioner in accordance with this  para-
 graph. Providers of adult day health care may elect to, but shall not be
 required  to,  use the services of the transportation management broker]
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 SHALL NOT BE REQUIRED TO USE THE SERVICES OF THE TRANSPORTATION  MANAGE-
 MENT BROKER.
   §  2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
 ments to subdivision 4 of section 365-h of the social services law shall
 be subject to the expiration and reversion of such section  pursuant  to
 subdivision  (a)  of  section 40 of part B of chapter 109 of the laws of
 2010, as amended, and shall be deemed to expire therewith.