Senate Bill S5851

                             
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                                   5851
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 20, 2023
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  WEBB  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in  relation  to  qualification
   for  certain  contracts  relating  to  the  consumer directed personal
   assistance program  by  applicants  who  provide  fiscal  intermediary
   services

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (b-1) of subdivision 4-a of section 365-f of  the
 social services law, as amended by section 3 of part PP of chapter 57 of
 the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   (b-1) Following the initial selection of contractors on February elev-
 enth,  two  thousand  twenty-one, pursuant to the commissioner's request
 for offers #20039 ("RFO")  in  accordance  with  this  subdivision,  the
 commissioner  is  instructed to accept the offer to enter into contracts
 with all applicants that were not initially selected on  February  elev-
 enth,  two  thousand  twenty-one,  but  that [were] ARE qualified by the
 commissioner as meeting minimum requirements of the RFO,  provided  that
 such qualified applicants that were not initially selected attest that:
   (i)  the  applicant  was providing fiscal intermediary services for at
 least two hundred consumers in a city with a population of more than one
 million at any time between January first, two thousand twenty and March
 thirty-first, two thousand twenty; or
   (ii) the applicant was providing fiscal intermediary services  for  at
 least  fifty  consumers in another area of the state at any time between
 January first, two thousand twenty and March thirty-first, two  thousand
 twenty[.]; OR
   (III)  FOR  ENTITIES WHO DID NOT SUBMIT AN APPLICATION PURSUANT TO THE
 RFO, THE ENTITY WAS  PROVIDING  FISCAL  INTERMEDIARY  SERVICES  UNDER  A
 CONTRACT  WITH  A  LOCAL  DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES PRIOR TO JANUARY
 FIRST, TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN. SUCH ENTITIES SHALL SUBMIT AN APPLICATION TO
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10108-03-3
              

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 THE COMMISSIONER CONSISTENT WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE RFO AND  ATTEST
 THAT  THEY  MEET THE REQUIREMENTS UNDER SUBPARAGRAPH (I) OR (II) OF THIS
 PARAGRAPH. SUCH APPLICATION SHALL BE DEEMED ACCEPTED BY THE COMMISSIONER
 UNLESS  THERE ARE FACTORS WHICH WOULD OTHERWISE DISQUALIFY THE APPLICANT
 AS PART OF THEIR APPLICATION.
   § 2. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (b-2) of subdivision 4-a of section
 365-f of the social services law, as added by section 4 of  part  PP  of
 chapter 57 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   (i)  Any late submission shall disqualify the applicant from receiving
 a contract award under paragraph (b-1) of  this  subdivision;  PROVIDED,
 HOWEVER,  THAT A LATE SUBMISSION FROM AN APPLICANT THAT ALREADY PROVIDES
 OR HAS PROVIDED FISCAL INTERMEDIARY SERVICES UNDER THIS SECTION PURSUANT
 TO CLAUSE (A) OF SUBPARAGRAPH (I) OF PARAGRAPH (A) OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION
 AND  MEETS  THE REMAINING QUALIFICATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT AS DEFINED IN
 THIS SECTION SHALL NOT BE  DISQUALIFIED  AND  SUCH  APPLICANT  SHALL  BE
 CONSIDERED A QUALIFIED APPLICANT.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.