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                                   6033
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 5, 2025
                                ___________
 
 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]  HUMANS,  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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 program  has  a  contract  with  or receive funding from the state. Such
 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]  DEPARTMENT  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 feasible; (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 period[.]; 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.