Bill Text: NY A04899 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires the provision of a model health care proxy form to individuals applying for medical assistance except where doing so would impede the immediate provision of health care services.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-3)
Status: (Passed) 2011-09-23 - signed chap.512 [A04899 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A04899-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4899--A 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 9, 2011 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, GOTTFRIED, SPANO, BRONSON, MAISEL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BOYLAND, CALHOUN, GLICK, LUPARDO, McKEVITT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to providing a model health care proxy form to individuals applying for medical assistance THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Section 366-a of the social services law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows: 3 1-A. EVERY PERSON MAKING APPLICATION FOR MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, AND EVERY 4 PERSON ON WHOSE BEHALF AN APPLICATION IS MADE, SHALL, IF INTERESTED, BE 5 GIVEN THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH MODEL HEALTH CARE PROXY 6 FORM BY THE PERSON TAKING THE APPLICATION, EXCEPT WHERE DOING SO WOULD 7 IMPEDE THE IMMEDIATE PROVISION OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES. 8 S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 9 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09113-02-1