assembly Bill A2893

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the provision of and payment for violence prevention programs

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Jan 31, 2023 referred to health

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A2893 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S580
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Add §367-x, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S9539

A2893 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Makes community violence prevention services available, to the extent permitted by federal law, to any Medicaid beneficiary who has received medical treatment for an injury sustained as a result of an act of community violence and has been referred by a certified or licensed health care provider or social services provider to receive community violence prevention services from a qualified violence prevention professional.

A2893 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2893
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. GONZALEZ-ROJAS, ANDERSON, CUNNINGHAM -- read once
   and referred to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the provision of
   and payment for violence prevention programs
 
   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
 367-x to read as follows:
   §  367-X. PAYMENT FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAMS. 1. AS USED IN THIS
 SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING DEFINITIONS:
   (A) "COMMUNITY  VIOLENCE"  MEANS  INTENTIONAL  ACTS  OF  INTERPERSONAL
 VIOLENCE  COMMITTED BY INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE NOT INTIMATELY RELATED TO THE
 VICTIM.
   (B) "COMMUNITY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES" MEANS  EVIDENCE-INFORMED,
 TRAUMA-INFORMED,  CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE, SUPPORTIVE AND NON-PSYCHOTHERA-
 PEUTIC SERVICES PROVIDED BY  A  QUALIFIED  VIOLENCE  PREVENTION  PROFES-
 SIONAL,  WITHIN  OR  OUTSIDE  OF  A CLINICAL SETTING, FOR THE PURPOSE OF
 PROMOTING IMPROVED HEALTH OUTCOMES, TRAUMA RECOVERY, AND POSITIVE BEHAV-
 IORAL CHANGE, PREVENTING INJURY RECIDIVISM AND REDUCING  THE  LIKELIHOOD
 THAT  INDIVIDUALS  WHO  ARE VICTIMS OF COMMUNITY VIOLENCE WILL COMMIT OR
 PROMOTE VIOLENCE THEMSELVES. "COMMUNITY  VIOLENCE  PREVENTION  SERVICES"
 MAY  INCLUDE  THE  PROVISION OF PEER SUPPORT AND COUNSELING, MENTORSHIP,
 CONFLICT  MEDIATION,  CRISIS  INTERVENTION,  TARGETED  CASE  MANAGEMENT,
 REFERRALS  TO  CERTIFIED OR LICENSED HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS OR SOCIAL
 SERVICES  PROVIDERS,  CASE  MANAGEMENT,  COMMUNITY  AND  SCHOOL  SUPPORT
 SERVICES, PATIENT EDUCATION OR SCREENING SERVICES TO VICTIMS OF COMMUNI-
 TY VIOLENCE.
   (C)  "PREVENTION  PROFESSIONAL"  MEANS  AN  INDIVIDUAL  WHO  WORKS  IN
 PROGRAMS AIMED TO  ADDRESS  SPECIFIC  PATIENT  NEEDS,  SUCH  AS  SUICIDE
 PREVENTION,  VIOLENCE PREVENTION, ALCOHOL AVOIDANCE, DRUG AVOIDANCE, AND
 TOBACCO PREVENTION. THE GOAL OF SUCH INDIVIDUAL'S WORK IS TO REDUCE  THE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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