Establishes the community chemical dependency services expansion program; provides funding for local governmental units for the provision of new and expanded chemical dependency services.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3692
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 28, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. CYMBROWITZ, CUSICK -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to establishing the
community chemical dependence services expansion program; and provid-
ing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section
2 22.13 to read as follows:
3 § 22.13 Community chemical dependency services expansion program.
4 (a) Community chemical dependence services expansion funds shall be
5 annually allocated by the commissioner based upon the following crite-
6 ria:
7 1. the efficiency and effectiveness of the use of funding within the
8 local governmental unit for the delivery of services to persons with
9 serious chemical dependency in order to assure that resources are made
10 available to persons in the community;
11 2. provisions that grantees of such funds for the provision of chemi-
12 cal dependence detoxification services shall have a mechanism to link
13 all clients receiving detoxification services to ongoing treatment for
14 chemical dependency immediately upon the conclusion of their detoxifica-
15 tion; and
16 3. other relevant factors that require the maintenance of existing
17 chemical dependency services and the development of new chemical depend-
18 ency services.
19 (b) Amounts provided pursuant to this section shall only be used to
20 fund chemical dependence treatment services, including detoxification
21 services, and associated local governmental unit administrative expenses
22 such as approved net operating cost, fee-for-service reimbursement, or
23 other financial mechanisms designed to achieve increased quality and
24 cost effectiveness.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (c) Funds shall be distributed pursuant to this section to local
2 governmental units in proportion to each unit's unmet need for chemical
3 dependence treatment services, as established by the office, except that
4 in distributing such funds, the commissioner shall consider the extent
5 to which each local governmental unit has maintained local contributions
6 for expenditures of chemical dependency services made pursuant to this
7 section in any fiscal year at a level equal to or greater than the
8 amount expended for such services by such local governmental unit in
9 the last completed fiscal year preceding that fiscal year.
10 (d) The commissioner is authorized and empowered to make inspections
11 and examine records of a local governmental unit receiving state aid
12 under this section or a provider of services funded pursuant to subdivi-
13 sion (b) of this section. Such examination shall include all medical,
14 service and financial records, receipts, disbursements, contracts, loans
15 and other moneys relating to the financial operation of the provider.
16 (e) The amount of community chemical dependence services expansion
17 funds for the office shall be determined in the annual budget and shall
18 include the amount of general fund appropriation reductions attributable
19 to reductions in medical assistance expenditures for medically managed
20 chemical dependence detoxification. Such reductions shall be calculated
21 by comparing medical assistance expenditures for medically managed chem-
22 ical dependency detoxification in the base year with the same expendi-
23 tures in the state fiscal year immediately preceding the base year. For
24 purposes of this section, the base year shall be the state fiscal year
25 in which the executive budget is issued. In computing such general fund
26 expenditures, and in computing the state share of medical assistance
27 pursuant to this section, the state share of medical assistance in
28 effect on January first, two thousand five shall be used.
29 (f) For purposes of this section, the definitions contained in section
30 41.03 of this chapter shall apply, except that chemical dependence
31 treatment services shall not include medically managed detoxification
32 provided in general hospitals licensed pursuant to article twenty-eight
33 of the public health law.
34 (g) No provision in this section shall create or be deemed to create
35 any right, interest or entitlement to services or funds that are the
36 subject of this section, or to any other services or funds, whether to
37 individuals, localities, providers or others, individually or collec-
38 tively.
39 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
40 deemed repealed March 31, 2026.
