S337-2011 Actions

• Mar 12, 2012: COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
• Feb 21, 2012: NOTICE OF COMMITTEE CONSIDERATION - REQUESTED
• Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES
• Jan 5, 2011: REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES

S337-2011 Meetings

S337-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S337

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the social services law, in relation to responsibility for
public assistance and care

PURPOSE:
To provide a fair and consistent method of funding for care or
treatment of alcohol or other drug addiction in cases where the
recipient of such care or treatment leaves his or her county of
residence to receive treatment in another county within the State.

JUSTIFICATION:
Where a county has elected to provide a full range of treatment for
alcohol or drug addiction treatment, and the addicted party seeks
such treatment in another county, a payment problem arises for the
care of treatment provider. Recipient counties are not overjoyed at
the prospect of footing the bill for nonresidents, and payments are
delayed or disallowed.

This bill would provide that the county of origin would be responsible
for the treatment and care of the individual for up to 180 days or
the duration of provider services, whichever is the shorter time
period.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
No cost to the State. Costs would balance out among counties providing
services and those saving money by not providing services within the
county.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
January 1st next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a
law.

S337-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 S. 337                                                    A. 155
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 SENATE - ASSEMBLY
 (PREFILED)
 January 5, 2011
 
 IN  SENATE  --  Introduced  by Sen. MONTGOMERY -- read twice and ordered
 printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Social
 Services
 IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to
 the Committee on Social Services
 AN  ACT  to amend the social services law, in relation to responsibility
 for public assistance and care
 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section  1.  Subdivision 5 of section 62 of the social services law is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (h) to read as follows:

 (H) NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH (A) OF  THIS  SUBDIVI
 SION,  IN  THE  EVENT  A  RECIPIENT  OF PUBLIC ASSISTANCE MOVES FROM ONE
 SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT TO ANOTHER SUCH DISTRICT IN  ORDER  TO  RECEIVE
 CARE OR TREATMENT FOR ALCOHOL OR OTHER DRUG ADDICTION, THE DISTRICT FROM
 WHICH  SUCH  RECIPIENT  MOVED  SHALL  BE  RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTINUING THE
 NECESSARY SOCIAL SERVICES BENEFITS TO SAID RECIPIENT FOR A PERIOD OF ONE
 HUNDRED EIGHTY DAYS BEGINNING WHEN THE RECIPIENT ENTERS INTO  A  PROGRAM
 OF  CARE OR TREATMENT, OR AS LONG AS SAID RECIPIENT REMAINS IN SUCH CARE
 OR TREATMENT, WHICHEVER IS SHORTER. SUCH BENEFITS SHALL INCLUDE THE COST
 OF CARE OR TREATMENT IN A FACILITY CERTIFIED BY THE OFFICE OF ALCOHOLISM
 AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES FOR IN-PATIENT OR OUT-PATIENT SERVICES, AND
 THE COST OF HOUSING PROVIDED TO SAID RECIPIENT  EITHER  AS  PART  OF  AN
 IN-PATIENT  PROGRAM  OR  WHILE BEING PROVIDED WITH OUT-PATIENT SERVICES,
 SUBJECT TO THE ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY DAY LIMITATION.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed
 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.
 LBD01536-01-1

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