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                                   7978
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 4, 2021
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 Introduced  by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred 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:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraphs (u) and (v) of subdivision 1 of section 201 of
 the public health law, paragraph (u) as added by chapter 939 of the laws
 of 1976 and paragraph (v) as added by chapter 474 of the laws  of  1996,
 are amended and a new paragraph (w) is added to read as follows:
   (u)    engage  in  research  into the causes of rocky mountain spotted
 fever and the prevention thereof and develop programs for the control of
 ticks, insects and [anthropods]  ARTHROPODS  which  act  as  vectors  of
 disease affecting man, within funds made available for such purposes[.];
   (v) act as the single state agency for medical assistance, pursuant to
 section  three  hundred  sixty-three-a  of  the social services law, [as
 amended by this chapter,] with responsibility to supervise the plan  for
 medical  assistance as required by title XIX of the federal Social Secu-
 rity act, or its successor, and to adopt regulations as may be necessary
 to implement this plan[.]; AND
   (W)(I) WITHIN AMOUNTS APPROPRIATED THEREFOR, CONTRACT WITH  COMMUNITY-
 BASED ORGANIZATIONS AND NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATIONS FOR THE PROVISION OF
 OUTREACH,  INFORMATION  AND EDUCATIONAL SERVICES TO NATURALIZED CITIZENS
 AND ALIENS ON HEALTH CARE SERVICES AND BENEFITS WHICH ARE  AVAILABLE  TO
 SUCH PERSONS. SUCH OUTREACH, INFORMATION AND EDUCATIONAL SERVICES SHALL:
   (A) DESIGNATE WHICH HEALTH CARE SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE TO SUCH PERSONS
 IN THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH THEY RESIDE;
   (B) INCLUDE THE ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMS:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   (1)  MEDICAL  ASSISTANCE AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, PURSUANT TO
 TITLE ELEVEN OF ARTICLE FIVE OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW,
   (2)  FAMILY HEALTH PLUS, PURSUANT TO TITLE ELEVEN-D OF ARTICLE FIVE OF
 THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW,
   (3) CHILD HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN, PURSUANT TO TITLE  ONE-A  OF  ARTICLE
 TWENTY-FIVE OF THIS CHAPTER, AND
   (4)  ANY OTHER HEALTH BENEFIT PROGRAM THE COMMISSIONER DEEMS APPROPRI-
 ATE;
   (C) PROVIDE INFORMATION ON THE MANNER  IN  WHICH  TO  APPLY  FOR  SUCH
 PROGRAMS; AND
   (D) BE PROVIDED IN A MANNER AND THE LANGUAGE WHICH IS MOST APPROPRIATE
 FOR  THE  COMMUNITY  TO  WHICH THE OUTREACH, INFORMATION AND EDUCATIONAL
 SERVICES ARE TO BE PROVIDED.
   (II) THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PROMULGATE ANY RULES AND REGULATIONS  NECES-
 SARY  TO  IMPLEMENT  THE  PROVISIONS OF THIS PARAGRAPH. IN ADDITION, THE
 DEPARTMENT SHALL PROVIDE ALL EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS NECESSARY  TO  IMPLE-
 MENT  THE  PROVISIONS  OF  THIS  PARAGRAPH  AND  SHALL  PAY THE COSTS OF
 DISTRIBUTING SUCH MATERIALS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that any  actions  neces-
 sary  for the implementation of the provisions of this act on its effec-
 tive date are authorized to be taken on or before such date.