Requires the commissioner of health to utilize only public employees in continuing and determining eligibility for the child plus progam, medical assistance program and family health plus progam.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7512
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 14, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to determining eligi-
bility for the child health plus program, the medical assistance
program and the family health plus program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 24 of section 206 of the public health law, as
2 added by section 39 of part C of chapter 58 of the laws of 2008, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 24. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law to the contrary,
5 the commissioner is authorized to receive applications and to determine
6 initial and continuing eligibility for enrollment under the child health
7 plus program established under title I-A of article twenty-five of this
8 chapter, the medical assistance program established under title eleven
9 of article five of the social services law, and the family health plus
10 program established under title eleven-D of such article. The commis-
11 sioner may exercise such authority with respect to all residents, or a
12 subset of residents, of one or more local social services districts.
13 [The commissioner is authorized to enter into one or more contracts,
14 which contracts shall be procured on a competitive basis pursuant to a
15 request for proposal process, for the purpose of exercising his or her
16 authority under this subdivision.] In exercising his or her authority
17 pursuant to this section, the commissioner shall utilize and employ only
18 public employees for the purposes of continuing and determining eligi-
19 bility for the child health plus program, the medical assistance program
20 and the family health plus program.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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