Bill Text: NY A02236 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to authorizing reimbursements for expenditures made by or on behalf of social services districts for medical assistance for needy persons and the administration thereof; authorizes a five year elimination of the local share for medicaid.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-26 - print number 2236a [A02236 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A02236-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2236--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 17, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES, STECK, GIGLIO, GOODELL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend chapter 58 of the laws of 2005, relating to authorizing reimbursements for expenditures made by or on behalf of social services districts for medical assistance for needy persons and the administration thereof, in relation to a five year elimination of the local share for medicaid The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (iv) of subdivision (c) of section 1 of part C of 2 chapter 58 of the laws of 2005, relating to authorizing reimbursements 3 for expenditures made by or on behalf of social services districts for 4 medical assistance for needy persons, is amended and seven new subdivi- 5 sions (c-2), (c-3), (c-4), (c-5), (c-6), (c-7) and (c-8) are added to 6 read as follows: 7 (iv) 2009 (January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009), and each 8 succeeding calendar year through 2021: prior year's trend factor 9 percentage plus 3%. 10 (c-2) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 368-a of the social 11 services law, or any other provision of law, commencing with the period 12 January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022, calendar year social services 13 district medical assistance expenditure amounts for each social services 14 district shall be reduced by 20% from the 2021 expenditures. No less 15 than 75% of the savings from this medical assistance expenditure 16 reduction shall be used for property tax levy reductions, or property 17 tax rebates, effective in the local government's 2023 fiscal year. 18 (c-3) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 368-a of the social 19 services law, or any other provision of law, commencing with the period EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03613-03-8A. 2236--A 2 1 January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023, calendar year social services 2 district medical assistance expenditure amounts for each social services 3 district shall be reduced by 40% from the 2021 expenditures. No less 4 than 75% of the annual savings from this medical assistance expenditure 5 reduction, compared to the prior year medical assistance expenditure, 6 shall be used for property tax levy reductions, or property tax rebates, 7 effective in the local government's 2024 fiscal year. 8 (c-4) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 368-a of the social 9 services law, or any other provision of law, commencing with the period 10 January 1, 2024 through December 31, 2024, calendar year social services 11 district medical assistance expenditure amounts for each social services 12 district shall be reduced by 60% from the 2021 expenditures. No less 13 than 75% of the annual savings from this medical assistance expenditure 14 reduction, compared to the prior year medical assistance expenditure, 15 shall be used for property tax levy reductions, or property tax rebates, 16 effective in the local government's 2025 fiscal year. 17 (c-5) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 368-a of the social 18 services law, or any other provision of law, commencing with the period 19 January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2025, calendar year social services 20 district medical assistance expenditure amounts for each social services 21 district shall be reduced by 80% from the 2021 expenditures. No less 22 than 75% of the annual savings from this medical assistance expenditure 23 reduction, compared to the prior year medical assistance expenditure, 24 shall be used for property tax levy reductions, or property tax rebates, 25 effective in the local government's 2026 fiscal year. 26 (c-6) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 368-a of the social 27 services law, or any other provision of law, commencing with the period 28 January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2026, calendar year social services 29 district medical assistance expenditure amounts for each social services 30 district shall be reduced by 100% from the 2021 expenditures; and shall 31 remain eliminated each year thereafter. No less than 75% of the annual 32 savings from this medical assistance expenditure reduction, compared to 33 the prior year medical assistance expenditure, shall be used for proper- 34 ty tax levy reductions, or property tax rebates, effective in the local 35 government's 2027 fiscal year. 36 (c-7) Notwithstanding the provisions of section seven of this act, any 37 county that opted into the local sales tax intercept methodology shall 38 receive a proportionate reduction in the sales tax intercept as 39 described in subdivisions (c-2), (c-3), (c-4), (c-5) and (c-6) of this 40 section and use these recaptured funds for property tax reductions in 41 the same manner as other local jurisdictions as described. 42 (c-8) The minimum amount of annual property tax levy reductions 43 resulting from savings achieved as defined in subdivisions (c-2), (c-3), 44 (c-4), (c-5) and (c-6) of this section, shall be determined by the state 45 comptroller and transmitted to each local government one hundred eighty 46 days in advance of the start of the fiscal year for which the property 47 tax reduction is to be effective. 48 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
