Bill Text: NY A01679 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities, department of health and division of the budget to authorize voluntary providers of supports and services to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to bill and be reimbursed within thirty days of billing for novel coronavirus, COVID-19 related costs and expenses, including, but not limited to, increased staffing and personal costs, personal protective equipment expenses, and increased residential cost.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-09 - reported referred to ways and means [A01679 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A01679-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1679

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Mental Health

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to reimbursement for
          certain costs and expenses related to the novel coronavirus, COVID-19

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section
     2  13.44 to read as follows:
     3  § 13.44 Reimbursement costs and expenses related to  novel  coronavirus,
     4            COVID-19.
     5    The  office,  department  of  health  and division of the budget shall
     6  authorize voluntary providers of supports and  services  to  individuals
     7  with  intellectual  and  developmental disabilities to bill and be reim-
     8  bursed within thirty days of billing  for  novel  coronavirus,  COVID-19
     9  related  costs  and  expenses,  including, but not limited to, increased
    10  staffing and personnel costs, personal  protective  equipment  expenses,
    11  and increased residential cost.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04559-01-1