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Assembly Bill A2070

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires medical assistance to be provided to victims of domestic violence to care for and treat any scarring resulting from the domestic violence incident

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2025-A2070 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §365-a, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A3335
2011-2012: A1476
2013-2014: A715
2015-2016: A1264
2017-2018: A4848
2019-2020: A2803
2021-2022: A3696
2023-2024: A1138

2025-A2070 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires medical assistance be provided to victims of domestic violence to care for and treat any scarring resulting from the domestic violence incident.

2025-A2070 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2070
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 15, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, KELLES, RAGA -- read once and referred
   to the Committee on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  social  services  law, in relation to providing
   medical assistance to needy persons for  the  care  and  treatment  of
   scarring resulting from domestic abuse

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 365-a of the social  services  law
 is amended by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows:
   (F) MEDICAL ASSISTANCE SHALL INCLUDE PHYSICIAN SERVICES AND ANY SURGI-
 CAL  SERVICES, INCLUDING PLASTIC SURGERY, THAT ARE NECESSARY TO CARE FOR
 AND TREAT ANY SCARRING OR SCAR TISSUE THAT FORMED AS THE  RESULT  OF  AN
 INCIDENT  OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AS DEFINED IN SECTION FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY-
 NINE-A OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the  commissioner  of
 health  shall  establish rules for acceptable forms of proof of an inci-
 dent of domestic violence.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05864-01-5

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