Senate Bill S7281

                             
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                                   7281
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 19, 2023
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  directing  the
   department of health to contract with community-based and not-for-pro-
   fit  organizations  for  the  provision  of information on health care
   services and benefits available to immigrants
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraphs (u), (v), (w), (x) and (y) of subdivision 1 of
 section 201 of the public health law, paragraph (u) as added by  chapter
 939  of  the  laws of 1976, paragraph (v) as added by chapter 474 of the
 laws of 1996, paragraph (w) as added by chapter 543 of the laws of 2019,
 paragraph (x) as added by section 2 of subpart S of part XX  of  chapter
 55  of  the laws of 2020 and paragraph (y) as added by chapter 95 of the
 laws of 2022, are amended and a new paragraph (z) is added  to  read  as
 follows:
   (u)    engage  in  research  into the causes of rocky mountain spotted
 fever and the prevention thereof and develop programs for the control of
 ticks, insects and [anthropods]  ARTHROPODS  which  act  as  vectors  of
 disease affecting man, within funds made available for such purposes[.];
   (v) act as the single state agency for medical assistance, pursuant to
 section  three  hundred  sixty-three-a  of  the social services law, [as
 amended by this chapter,] with responsibility to supervise the plan  for
 medical  assistance as required by title XIX of the federal Social Secu-
 rity act, or its successor, and to adopt regulations as may be necessary
 to implement this plan[.];
   (w) make available to the council on children  and  families  informa-
 tion,  in  a  format  identified by the council, regarding home visiting
 programs that meet the criteria as  required  by  section  four  hundred
 twenty-nine  of  the  social  services  law  regardless  of whether such
 program has a contract with or receive  funding  from  the  state.  Such
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 information  shall  be  provided in accordance with the requirements set
 forth in subdivision two of section four hundred eighty-three-h  of  the
 social  services  law.  Such information shall be made available no less
 than once a year[.];
   (x) produce an annual report analyzing the costs related to the sexual
 assault examination direct reimbursement program as created under subdi-
 vision  thirteen  of section six hundred thirty-one of the executive law
 and provide such report to the office of victim services  on  or  before
 September  first  of  each  year.  Such  report shall be provided to the
 governor, temporary president of the  senate  and  the  speaker  of  the
 assembly[.];
   (y)  To  develop  a  form  by  which a coroner, coroner's physician or
 medical examiner, pursuant to section six hundred seventy-seven  of  the
 county law, shall report to the division of veterans' services any death
 which  appears to be caused by suicide by a person who, to the knowledge
 of the coroner, coroner's physician or medical examiner, is  a  veteran.
 This  form  shall at a minimum: (i) ensure compliance with the strictest
 privacy protections and encourage data aggregation to the extent  feasi-
 ble;  (ii)  provide  the  address  to  which the form is to be mailed or
 submitted electronically; and (iii) include the county of residence  and
 the  branch  of  service of deceased veterans during the reporting peri-
 od[.]; AND
   (Z)(I) WITHIN AMOUNTS APPROPRIATED THEREFOR, CONTRACT WITH  COMMUNITY-
 BASED ORGANIZATIONS AND NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATIONS FOR THE PROVISION OF
 OUTREACH,  INFORMATION  AND EDUCATIONAL SERVICES TO NATURALIZED CITIZENS
 AND NONCITIZENS ON HEALTH CARE SERVICES AND BENEFITS WHICH ARE AVAILABLE
 TO SUCH PERSONS. SUCH OUTREACH,  INFORMATION  AND  EDUCATIONAL  SERVICES
 SHALL:
   (A) DESIGNATE WHICH HEALTH CARE SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE TO SUCH PERSONS
 IN THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH THEY RESIDE;
   (B) INCLUDE THE ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMS:
   (1)  MEDICAL  ASSISTANCE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, PURSUANT TO
 TITLE ELEVEN OF ARTICLE FIVE OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW,
   (2) FAMILY HEALTH PLUS, PURSUANT TO TITLE ELEVEN-D OF ARTICLE FIVE  OF
 THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW,
   (3)  CHILD  HEALTH  INSURANCE PLAN, PURSUANT TO TITLE ONE-A OF ARTICLE
 TWENTY-FIVE OF THIS CHAPTER, AND
   (4) ANY OTHER HEALTH BENEFIT PROGRAM THE COMMISSIONER DEEMS  APPROPRI-
 ATE;
   (C)  PROVIDE  INFORMATION  ON  THE  MANNER  IN WHICH TO APPLY FOR SUCH
 PROGRAMS; AND
   (D) BE PROVIDED IN A MANNER AND THE LANGUAGE WHICH IS MOST APPROPRIATE
 FOR THE COMMUNITY TO WHICH THE  OUTREACH,  INFORMATION  AND  EDUCATIONAL
 SERVICES ARE TO BE PROVIDED.
   (II)  THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PROMULGATE ANY RULES AND REGULATIONS NECES-
 SARY TO IMPLEMENT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS  PARAGRAPH.  IN  ADDITION,  THE
 DEPARTMENT  SHALL  PROVIDE ALL EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS NECESSARY TO IMPLE-
 MENT THE PROVISIONS OF  THIS  PARAGRAPH  AND  SHALL  PAY  THE  COSTS  OF
 DISTRIBUTING SUCH MATERIALS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
 completed on or before such effective date.