Assembly Bill A7978

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Directs department of health to contract with community organizations for distribution of information on health care services and benefits available to immigrants

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A7978 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5638
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §201, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S2449
2011-2012: S1158
2013-2014: S3187
2015-2016: S1542
2017-2018: S3467
2019-2020: S5088
2023-2024: S7281

2021-A7978 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2021-A7978 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7978
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 4, 2021
                                ___________
 
 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.
                                                            LBD10173-01-1
              

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