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                                  2358--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 18, 2017
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. GOTTFRIED, L. ROSENTHAL, JAFFEE, STECK, HOOPER,
   D'URSO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of  A.  ABINANTI,  CARROLL,  COOK,
   GUNTHER,  TITONE  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
   -- reported and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means --  recom-
   mitted  to the Committee on Ways and Means in accordance with Assembly
   Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to managed long term
   care plans not being controlled or owned by for-profit health  mainte-
   nance organizations or insurers
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of  section  4403-f  of  the
 public  health  law,  as  added  by  chapter 659 of the laws of 1997, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (b) "Eligible applicant" means an entity controlled or wholly owned by
 one or more of the following: a hospital as defined in  subdivision  one
 of  section twenty-eight hundred one of this chapter; a home care agency
 licensed or certified pursuant to article thirty-six  of  this  chapter;
 [an] A NOT-FOR-PROFIT entity that has received a certificate of authori-
 ty  pursuant  to  sections  forty-four hundred three, forty-four hundred
 three-a or AN INTEGRATED DELIVERY SYSTEM THAT HAS RECEIVED A CERTIFICATE
 OF AUTHORITY PURSUANT TO SECTION  forty-four  hundred  eight-a  of  this
 article  (as  added  by  chapter  six hundred thirty-nine of the laws of
 nineteen hundred ninety-six), or  a  NOT-FOR-PROFIT  health  maintenance
 organization  authorized under article forty-three of the insurance law;
 or a not-for-profit organization which has a  history  of  providing  or
 coordinating  health  care  services  and long term care services to the
 elderly and disabled.   HOWEVER, AN ENTITY OWNED  OR  CONTROLLED  BY  AN
 ENTITY  THAT HAS RECEIVED A CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY PURSUANT TO SECTION
 FORTY-FOUR HUNDRED THREE OR FORTY-FOUR HUNDRED THREE-A OF  THIS  ARTICLE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 A. 2358--A                          2
 
 AND  HAS RECEIVED A CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY UNDER THIS SECTION PRIOR TO
 THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE CHAPTER OF THE LAWS OF TWO  THOUSAND  EIGHTEEN
 WHICH ENACTED THIS SENTENCE SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE AN ELIGIBLE APPLICANT.
   §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
 the amendments to section 4403-f  of  the  public  health  law  made  by
 section  one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and
 shall be deemed repealed therewith.