Bill Text: NY S00153 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to calculating social services district medical assistance expenditure amounts.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 11-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-28 - PRINT NUMBER 153A [S00153 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S00153-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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153--A
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
(PREFILED)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by Sens. GALLIVAN, AVELLA, CARLUCCI, FARLEY, GRIFFO, GRISAN-
TI, LARKIN, LATIMER, LIBOUS, MAZIARZ, RANZENHOFER, SEWARD, YOUNG --
read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
the Committee on Finance -- recommitted to the Committee on Finance in
accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
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, and to amend the general municipal law, in
relation to calculating social services district medical assistance
expenditure amounts
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (c-1) of section 1 of part C of chapter 58 of
2 the laws of 2005, relating to authorizing reimbursements for expendi-
3 tures made by or on behalf of social services districts for medical
4 assistance for needy persons and the administration thereof, as added by
5 section 1 of part F of chapter 56 of the laws of 2012, is amended to
6 read as follows:
7 (c-1) Notwithstanding any provisions of subdivision (c) of this
8 section to the contrary, effective April 1, 2013, for the period January
9 1, 2013 through December 31, 2013 and for each calendar year thereafter,
10 the medical assistance expenditure amount for the social services
11 district for such period shall be [equal to] the GREATER OF (I) ZERO; OR
12 (II) THE previous calendar year's medical assistance expenditure amount
13 MINUS FIVE PERCENT OF THE MEDICAL ASSISTANCE EXPENDITURE AMOUNT FOR THE
14 PERIOD JANUARY 1, 2016 THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2016, except that:
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (1) for the period January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2013, the
2 previous calendar year medical assistance expenditure amount will be
3 increased by 2%;
4 (2) for the period January 1, 2014 through December 31, 2014, the
5 previous calendar year medical assistance expenditure amount will be
6 increased by 1%; AND
7 (3) FOR THE PERIOD JANUARY 1, 2016 THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2016, THE
8 PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR MEDICAL ASSISTANCE EXPENDITURE AMOUNT WILL BE
9 UNCHANGED.
10 S 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 3 of section 3-c of the general
11 municipal law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (viii) to read as
12 follows:
13 (VIII) SUBTRACT THE AMOUNT THAT THE PRIOR FISCAL YEAR'S MEDICAL
14 ASSISTANCE EXPENDITURE AMOUNT EXCEEDS THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR'S MEDICAL
15 ASSISTANCE EXPENDITURE AMOUNT, PROVIDED THAT THIS SHALL ONLY APPLY TO
16 COUNTIES AND SHALL ONLY APPLY TO FISCAL YEARS THAT BEGIN AFTER TWO THOU-
17 SAND SIXTEEN.
18 S 3. This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that
19 the amendments to section 3-c of the general municipal law made by
20 section two of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and
21 shall be deemed repealed therewith.
