STATE OF NEW YORK
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4948
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 14, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- 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 reimbursement for
non-medical transportation for individuals with a substance use disor-
der to receive peer support services
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 19.18-d to read as follows:
3 § 19.18-d Reimbursement for transportation to peer support services.
4 The office shall establish reimbursement rates for non-medical trans-
5 portation for individuals with a substance use disorder to receive
6 services from a peer certified by the office of addiction services and
7 supports. As part of the development of such rates, the office, in
8 consultation with the department of health, shall pursue federal Medi-
9 caid participation and reimbursement. The office shall also consider
10 the use of any federal grants, including state opioid response grants
11 and supplemental substance abuse prevention and treatment block grants,
12 to support such reimbursement. Such reimbursement rates shall be estab-
13 lished by April first, two thousand twenty-six.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
15 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment
16 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
17 of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
18 completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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