NY State Senate Bill 2025-S4950

Senate Bill S4950

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the payment for services at addiction treatment centers operated by the office of addiction services and supports

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Alcoholism And Substance Use Disorders Committee

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2025-S4950 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Alcoholism And Substance Use Disorders
Law Section:: Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §25.17, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2021-2022: S7350
2023-2024: S3390

2025-S4950 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that services at addiction treatment centers operated by the office of addiction services and supports shall not be refused at such centers if a person is unable to pay.

2025-S4950 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S4950

SPONSOR: HARCKHAM
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the payment for
services at addiction treatment centers operated by the office of
addiction services and supports

 
PURPOSE:

Relates to the payment for services at addiction treatment centers oper-
ated by the office of addiction services and supports

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends section 25.17 of the mental hygiene law expanding the
fee schedules to include services at addiction treatment centers by the
office of addiction services and supports.

Section 2 states the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Substance use disorder (SUD) is a life threatening disorder that can
affect individuals of all social and economic backgrounds. With
substance use, an individual's willingness or desire to get help or the
realization that help is necessary can fade quickly, further reiterating
the need for industry to acknowledge that no door is the wrong door to
seek treatment, and that time is of the essence.

Individuals should not be turned away from life saving services regard-
less of their ability to pay. The facilities run by the Office of
Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS) should be held under the same
standards as OASAS funded community-based facilities currently are. This
legislation seeks to save lives by creating a pathway to treatment
regardless of the individual's current ability to pay.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2023-2024: S3390A/A4213 - Passed Senate/Died in Ways & Means

2021-2022: S7350/A8358 - Died in Alcoholism and Substance Use

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None to the State.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have
become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
on or before such effective date.

2025-S4950 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4950
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and  when  printed  to be committed to the Committee on Alcoholism and
   Substance Use Disorders
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the  payment  for
   services  at  addiction  treatment  centers  operated by the office of
   addiction services and supports

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  25.17  of  the mental hygiene law, as amended by
 section 12 of part G of chapter 56 of the laws of 2013,  is  amended  to
 read as follows:
 § 25.17 Fees for services.
   Voluntary  agencies  and programs operated by local governmental units
 funded in whole or in part by the office shall establish, subject to the
 approval of the office, fee schedules for substance use disorder  and/or
 compulsive  gambling  services, INCLUDING FOR SUCH SERVICES AT ADDICTION
 TREATMENT CENTERS OPERATED BY  THE  OFFICE  OF  ADDICTION  SERVICES  AND
 SUPPORTS,  not specifically covered by the rates established pursuant to
 article twenty-eight of the public health law or title  two  of  article
 five  of  the  social  services  law.  Such  fees  shall  be charged for
 substance use disorder and/or compulsive gambling services furnished  to
 persons  who  are  financially able to pay the same, provided, that such
 services shall not be refused to  any  person  because  of  [his]  THEIR
 inability to pay therefor.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
 this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
 on or before such effective date.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09691-01-5

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