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Assembly Bill A11624

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires Medicaid coverage of applied behavior analysis therapy rendered during school hours

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2025-A11624 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §365-a, Soc Serv L

2025-A11624 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires Medicaid coverage of applied behavior analysis therapy rendered during school hours in certain schools.

2025-A11624 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11624
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 29, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Yeger) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring  Medi-
   caid  coverage  of  applied  behavior analysis therapy rendered during
   school hours
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the social services law
 is amended by adding a new paragraph (oo) to read as follows:
   (OO) APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS THERAPY RENDERED DURING SCHOOL HOURS IN
 A PUBLIC OR NON-PUBLIC SCHOOL PROVIDING  EDUCATION  IN  ANY  GRADE  FROM
 KINDERGARTEN THROUGH TWELFTH FOR THE TREATMENT OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISOR-
 DER.  FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS PARAGRAPH, THE TERMS "TREATMENT OF AUTISM
 SPECTRUM DISORDER" AND "APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS" SHALL HAVE  THE  SAME
 MEANING  AS  SUCH TERMS ARE DEFINED BY SUBSECTION (EE) OF SECTION FORTY-
 THREE HUNDRED THREE OF THE INSURANCE LAW.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
 on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16178-01-6

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