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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4899--A
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 9, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M. of A. ROSENTHAL, GOTTFRIED, SPANO, BRONSON, MAISEL --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of  A.  BOYLAND,  CALHOUN,  GLICK,  LUPARDO,
          McKEVITT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services
          --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
          and recommitted to said committee
 

        AN ACT to amend the social services law,  in  relation  to  providing  a
          model  health  care  proxy  form  to  individuals applying for medical
          assistance
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Section  366-a  of  the social services law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
     3    1-a. Every person making application for medical assistance, and every
     4  person on whose behalf an application is made, shall, if interested,  be
     5  given  the  New  York state department of health model health care proxy
     6  form by the person taking the application, except where doing  so  would
     7  impede the immediate provision of health care services.

     8    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     9  have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09113-02-1