Bill Text: NY A05287 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 5287 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires any municipality which receives and responds to 4 or more calls for emergency medical service for an individual to report the circumstances of such calls to the local social services district and the office of the medicaid inspector general.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to local governments [A05287 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A05287-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5287
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 17, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO, BARCLAY, HAWLEY -- read once and referred
         to the Committee on Local Governments
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general municipal law, in relation to directing
         municipalities to  submit  a  report  to  the  local  social  services
         district  on  the circumstances surrounding the summoning of emergency
         medical services on four or more occasions for any individual during a
         thirty day period of time
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  The  general  municipal  law  is  amended by adding a new
    2  section 122-a to read as follows:
    3    S 122-A. REPORTS OF FREQUENT EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE  CALLS  FOR  AN
    4  INDIVIDUAL.  1. EVERY COUNTY, CITY, TOWN AND VILLAGE, WHICH RECEIVES AND
    5  RESPONDS TO FOUR OR MORE CALLS OR DEMANDS FOR THE PROVISION OF EMERGENCY
    6  MEDICAL SERVICE, AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION THREE THOUSAND
    7  ONE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, TO ANY INDIVIDUAL  DURING  ANY  PERIOD  OF
    8  THIRTY  DAYS, SHALL REPORT THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF EACH SUCH CALL OR DEMAND
    9  AND RESPONSE TO THE LOCAL SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT  AND  OFFICE  OF  THE
   10  MEDICAID  INSPECTOR  GENERAL, IN SUCH FORM AS SHALL BE DETERMINED BY THE
   11  COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH.
   12    2. EVERY REPORT SUBMITTED BY A MUNICIPALITY  PURSUANT  TO  SUBDIVISION
   13  ONE  OF THIS SECTION SHALL INCLUDE SUCH INFORMATION AS SHALL BE REQUIRED
   14  BY THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH, INCLUDING WHETHER THE INDIVIDUAL FOR WHOM
   15  EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE IS BEING  SUMMONED  APPEARS  TO  BE  RECEIVING
   16  ADEQUATE  CARE AND SUPPORT AT HIS OR HER PLACE OF RESIDENCE, AND WHETHER
   17  THE SUMMONING OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE APPEARS TO BE UNWARRANTED.
   18    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
   19  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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