Bill Text: NY S07281 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the department of health to contract with community-based organizations and not-for-profit corporations for the provision of outreach, information and educational services to immigrants on the availability of health care services, medical assistance, emergency medical assistance, the family health plus program and the child health insurance plan.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S07281 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07281-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7281

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 19, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  directing  the
          department of health to contract with community-based and not-for-pro-
          fit  organizations  for  the  provision  of information on health care
          services and benefits available to immigrants

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraphs (u), (v), (w), (x) and (y) of subdivision 1 of
     2  section 201 of the public health law, paragraph (u) as added by  chapter
     3  939  of  the  laws of 1976, paragraph (v) as added by chapter 474 of the
     4  laws of 1996, paragraph (w) as added by chapter 543 of the laws of 2019,
     5  paragraph (x) as added by section 2 of subpart S of part XX  of  chapter
     6  55  of  the laws of 2020 and paragraph (y) as added by chapter 95 of the
     7  laws of 2022, are amended and a new paragraph (z) is added  to  read  as
     8  follows:
     9    (u)    engage  in  research  into the causes of rocky mountain spotted
    10  fever and the prevention thereof and develop programs for the control of
    11  ticks, insects and [anthropods]  arthropods  which  act  as  vectors  of
    12  disease affecting man, within funds made available for such purposes[.];
    13    (v) act as the single state agency for medical assistance, pursuant to
    14  section  three  hundred  sixty-three-a  of  the social services law, [as
    15  amended by this chapter,] with responsibility to supervise the plan  for
    16  medical  assistance as required by title XIX of the federal Social Secu-
    17  rity act, or its successor, and to adopt regulations as may be necessary
    18  to implement this plan[.];
    19    (w) make available to the council on children  and  families  informa-
    20  tion,  in  a  format  identified by the council, regarding home visiting
    21  programs that meet the criteria as  required  by  section  four  hundred
    22  twenty-nine  of  the  social  services  law  regardless  of whether such
    23  program has a contract with or receive  funding  from  the  state.  Such

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  information  shall  be  provided in accordance with the requirements set
     2  forth in subdivision two of section four hundred eighty-three-h  of  the
     3  social  services  law.  Such information shall be made available no less
     4  than once a year[.];
     5    (x) produce an annual report analyzing the costs related to the sexual
     6  assault examination direct reimbursement program as created under subdi-
     7  vision  thirteen  of section six hundred thirty-one of the executive law
     8  and provide such report to the office of victim services  on  or  before
     9  September  first  of  each  year.  Such  report shall be provided to the
    10  governor, temporary president of the  senate  and  the  speaker  of  the
    11  assembly[.];
    12    (y)  To  develop  a  form  by  which a coroner, coroner's physician or
    13  medical examiner, pursuant to section six hundred seventy-seven  of  the
    14  county law, shall report to the division of veterans' services any death
    15  which  appears to be caused by suicide by a person who, to the knowledge
    16  of the coroner, coroner's physician or medical examiner, is  a  veteran.
    17  This  form  shall at a minimum: (i) ensure compliance with the strictest
    18  privacy protections and encourage data aggregation to the extent  feasi-
    19  ble;  (ii)  provide  the  address  to  which the form is to be mailed or
    20  submitted electronically; and (iii) include the county of residence  and
    21  the  branch  of  service of deceased veterans during the reporting peri-
    22  od[.]; and
    23    (z)(i) within amounts appropriated therefor, contract with  community-
    24  based organizations and not-for-profit corporations for the provision of
    25  outreach,  information  and educational services to naturalized citizens
    26  and noncitizens on health care services and benefits which are available
    27  to such persons. Such outreach,  information  and  educational  services
    28  shall:
    29    (A) designate which health care services are available to such persons
    30  in the community in which they reside;
    31    (B) include the eligibility requirements for the following programs:
    32    (1)  medical  assistance and emergency medical assistance, pursuant to
    33  title eleven of article five of the social services law,
    34    (2) family health plus, pursuant to title eleven-D of article five  of
    35  the social services law,
    36    (3)  child  health  insurance plan, pursuant to title one-A of article
    37  twenty-five of this chapter, and
    38    (4) any other health benefit program the commissioner deems  appropri-
    39  ate;
    40    (C)  provide  information  on  the  manner  in which to apply for such
    41  programs; and
    42    (D) be provided in a manner and the language which is most appropriate
    43  for the community to which the  outreach,  information  and  educational
    44  services are to be provided.
    45    (ii)  the department shall promulgate any rules and regulations neces-
    46  sary to implement the provisions of this  paragraph.  In  addition,  the
    47  department  shall  provide all educational materials necessary to imple-
    48  ment the provisions of  this  paragraph  and  shall  pay  the  costs  of
    49  distributing such materials.
    50    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    51  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    52  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    53  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    54  completed on or before such effective date.