STATE OF NEW YORK
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648--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON, BARRON, ABINANTI, D'URSO, WEPRIN -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Health -- reported and referred
to the Committee on Ways and Means -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to making care and
services provided by licensed mental health practitioners eligible for
coverage under the Medicaid program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the social services law
2 is amended by adding a new paragraph (gg) to read as follows:
3 (gg) care and services provided by mental health practitioners
4 licensed pursuant to article one hundred sixty-three of the education
5 law acting within their scope of practice, where such services would
6 otherwise be covered under this title. Nothing in this paragraph shall
7 be construed to modify or expand the scope of practice of a mental
8 health counselor, marriage and family therapist, creative arts therapist
9 or psychoanalyst licensed pursuant to article one hundred sixty-three of
10 the education law.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
12 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04769-02-9
