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Senate Bill S1967

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the use of transportation management brokers

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2025-S1967 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §365-h, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S8806
2023-2024: S4788

2025-S1967 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes that providers of adult day health care and managed long term care plans may elect to use transportation management brokers; provides that programs of all-inclusive care for the elderly (PACE) are not required to use transportation management brokers.

2025-S1967 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1967 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1967
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. RIVERA, MAYER -- 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 the use of
   transportation management brokers
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subparagraph  (vi)  of  paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 of
 section 365-h of the social services law, as added by section 2 of  part
 LL of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
   (vi)  [Responsibility for transportation services provided or arranged
 for enrollees of] PROVIDERS OF ADULT DAY HEALTH CARE  AND  managed  long
 term  care  plans  issued certificates of authority under section forty-
 four hundred three-f of the public health law[, not including] MAY ELECT
 TO, BUT SHALL NOT BE REQUIRED TO, USE THE SERVICES OF THE TRANSPORTATION
 MANAGEMENT BROKER. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, a program designated as a  Program
 of  All-Inclusive  Care  for the Elderly (PACE) as authorized by Federal
 Public law 1053-33, subtitle I of title IV of the Balanced Budget Act of
 1997[, and, at the commissioner's discretion, other plans that integrate
 benefits for dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid  beneficiaries  based
 on  a  demonstration by the plan that inclusion of transportation within
 the benefit  package  will  result  in  cost  efficiencies  and  quality
 improvement,  shall be transferred to a transportation management broker
 that has a contract with the commissioner in accordance with this  para-
 graph. Providers of adult day health care may elect to, but shall not be
 required  to,  use the services of the transportation management broker]
 SHALL NOT BE REQUIRED TO USE THE SERVICES OF THE TRANSPORTATION  MANAGE-
 MENT BROKER.
   §  2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
 ments to subdivision 4 of section 365-h of the social services law shall
 be subject to the expiration and reversion of such section  pursuant  to
 subdivision  (a)  of  section 40 of part B of chapter 109 of the laws of
 2010, as amended, and shall be deemed to expire therewith.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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