A08591 Summary:

BILL NOA08591
 
SAME ASSAME AS S02558-A
 
SPONSORCymbrowitz (MS)
 
COSPNSRBrook-Krasny, Montesano, Cusick, Ortiz
 
MLTSPNSRSchimel
 
Add S22.13, Ment Hyg L
 
Establishes the community chemical dependence services expansion program; provides funding for local governmental units for the provision of new and expanded chemical dependency services.
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A08591 Actions:

BILL NOA08591
 
01/27/2014referred to alcoholism and drug abuse
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A08591 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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A08591 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          8591
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 27, 2014
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CYMBROWITZ,  BROOK-KRASNY  --  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 providing
          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.
    25    (c)  Funds  shall  be  distributed  pursuant  to this section to local
    26  governmental units in proportion to each unit's unmet need for  chemical
    27  dependence treatment services, as established by the office, except that
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07398-02-4

        A. 8591                             2
 
     1  in  distributing  such funds, the commissioner shall consider the extent

     2  to which each local governmental unit has maintained local contributions
     3  for expenditures of chemical dependency services made pursuant  to  this
     4  section  in  any  fiscal  year  at  a level equal to or greater than the
     5  amount expended for such  services by such local  governmental  unit  in
     6  the last completed fiscal year preceding that fiscal year.
     7    (d)  The  commissioner is authorized and empowered to make inspections
     8  and examine records of a local governmental  unit  receiving  state  aid
     9  under this section or a provider of services funded pursuant to subdivi-
    10  sion  (b)  of  this section. Such examination shall include all medical,
    11  service and financial records, receipts, disbursements, contracts, loans

    12  and other moneys relating to the financial operation of the provider.
    13    (e) The amount of community  chemical  dependence  services  expansion
    14  funds  for the office shall be determined in the annual budget and shall
    15  include the amount of general fund appropriation reductions attributable
    16  to reductions in medical assistance expenditures for  medically  managed
    17  chemical  dependence detoxification. Such reductions shall be calculated
    18  by comparing medical assistance expenditures for medically managed chem-
    19  ical dependency detoxification in the base year with the  same  expendi-
    20  tures  in the state fiscal year immediately preceding the base year. For
    21  purposes of this section, the base year shall be the state  fiscal  year

    22  in  which the executive budget is issued. In computing such general fund
    23  expenditures, and in computing the state  share  of  medical  assistance
    24  pursuant  to  this  section,  the  state  share of medical assistance in
    25  effect on January first, two thousand five shall be used.
    26    (f) For purposes of this section, the definitions contained in section
    27  41.03 of this chapter  shall  apply,  except  that  chemical  dependence
    28  treatment  services  shall  not include medically managed detoxification
    29  provided in general hospitals licensed pursuant to article  twenty-eight
    30  of the public health law.
    31    (g)  No  provision in this section shall create or be deemed to create
    32  any right, interest or entitlement to services or  funds  that  are  the

    33  subject  of  this section, or to any other services or funds, whether to
    34  individuals, localities, providers or others,  individually  or  collec-
    35  tively.
    36    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
    37  deemed repealed March 31, 2018.
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