Bill Text: NY S00967 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to medical expenditure amounts and to county property tax levy reductions resulting from medical assistance program expenditure reductions.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-01-09 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S00967 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00967-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           967
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced by Sens. YOUNG, AKSHAR, CARLUCCI, FUNKE, GALLIVAN, RITCHIE --
          read  twice  and  ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
          the Committee on Local Government
        AN ACT to amend chapter 58 of the laws of  2005  authorizing  reimburse-
          ments  for  expenditures  made  by  or  on  behalf  of social services
          districts for medical assistance for needy persons  and  the  adminis-
          tration   thereof,  in  relation  to  medical  assistance  expenditure
          amounts; and to amend the general municipal law, in relation to county
          property tax levy reductions resulting from medical assistance program
          expenditure reductions
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  1  of  part C of chapter 58 of the laws of 2005,
     2  authorizing reimbursements for expenditures made  by  or  on  behalf  of
     3  social  services  districts for medical assistance for needy persons and
     4  the administration thereof, is amended by adding a new subdivision (c-2)
     5  to read as follows:
     6    (c-2) Notwithstanding any provisions of subdivision (c)  or  (c-1)  of
     7  this  section  to the contrary, and excluding a social services district
     8  that constitutes a city of one million or more, effective April 1, 2020,
     9  for the period January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020, and  for  each
    10  calendar  year thereafter, the medical assistance expenditure amount for
    11  the social services district for such period shall be the greater of (1)
    12  zero; or (2) the previous calendar year's medical assistance expenditure
    13  amount minus twenty percent of the medical assistance expenditure amount
    14  for the period January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2019.
    15    § 2. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new section  3-e
    16  to read as follows:
    17    §  3-e.  County  property  tax  levy  reduction resulting from medical
    18  assistance program expenditure  reductions.  Notwithstanding  any  other
    19  provision of law to the contrary, in the event a county's local contrib-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04029-01-9
        S. 967                              2
     1  ution to New York state's share of payments under the medical assistance
     2  program  are  reduced or eliminated as a result of changes in federal or
     3  state statute, the amount of such  reduction  or  elimination  shall  be
     4  applied  as an equal dollar amount reduction in the property tax levy of
     5  such county.
     6    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.