Relates to authorizing reimbursements for expenditures made by or on behalf of social services districts for medical assistance for needy persons and the administration thereof; authorizes a five year elimination of the local share for medicaid.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2236--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES, STECK, GIGLIO, GOODELL -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- recommitted to
the Committee on Ways and Means in accordance with Assembly Rule 3,
sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend chapter 58 of the laws of 2005, relating to authorizing
reimbursements for expenditures made by or on behalf of social
services districts for medical assistance for needy persons and the
administration thereof, in relation to a five year elimination of the
local share for medicaid
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (iv) of subdivision (c) of section 1 of part C of
2 chapter 58 of the laws of 2005, relating to authorizing reimbursements
3 for expenditures made by or on behalf of social services districts for
4 medical assistance for needy persons, is amended and seven new subdivi-
5 sions (c-2), (c-3), (c-4), (c-5), (c-6), (c-7) and (c-8) are added to
6 read as follows:
7 (iv) 2009 (January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009), and each
8 succeeding calendar year through 2021: prior year's trend factor
9 percentage plus 3%.
10 (c-2) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 368-a of the social
11 services law, or any other provision of law, commencing with the period
12 January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022, calendar year social services
13 district medical assistance expenditure amounts for each social services
14 district shall be reduced by 20% from the 2021 expenditures. No less
15 than 75% of the savings from this medical assistance expenditure
16 reduction shall be used for property tax levy reductions, or property
17 tax rebates, effective in the local government's 2023 fiscal year.
18 (c-3) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 368-a of the social
19 services law, or any other provision of law, commencing with the period
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023, calendar year social services
2 district medical assistance expenditure amounts for each social services
3 district shall be reduced by 40% from the 2021 expenditures. No less
4 than 75% of the annual savings from this medical assistance expenditure
5 reduction, compared to the prior year medical assistance expenditure,
6 shall be used for property tax levy reductions, or property tax rebates,
7 effective in the local government's 2024 fiscal year.
8 (c-4) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 368-a of the social
9 services law, or any other provision of law, commencing with the period
10 January 1, 2024 through December 31, 2024, calendar year social services
11 district medical assistance expenditure amounts for each social services
12 district shall be reduced by 60% from the 2021 expenditures. No less
13 than 75% of the annual savings from this medical assistance expenditure
14 reduction, compared to the prior year medical assistance expenditure,
15 shall be used for property tax levy reductions, or property tax rebates,
16 effective in the local government's 2025 fiscal year.
17 (c-5) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 368-a of the social
18 services law, or any other provision of law, commencing with the period
19 January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2025, calendar year social services
20 district medical assistance expenditure amounts for each social services
21 district shall be reduced by 80% from the 2021 expenditures. No less
22 than 75% of the annual savings from this medical assistance expenditure
23 reduction, compared to the prior year medical assistance expenditure,
24 shall be used for property tax levy reductions, or property tax rebates,
25 effective in the local government's 2026 fiscal year.
26 (c-6) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 368-a of the social
27 services law, or any other provision of law, commencing with the period
28 January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2026, calendar year social services
29 district medical assistance expenditure amounts for each social services
30 district shall be reduced by 100% from the 2021 expenditures; and shall
31 remain eliminated each year thereafter. No less than 75% of the annual
32 savings from this medical assistance expenditure reduction, compared to
33 the prior year medical assistance expenditure, shall be used for proper-
34 ty tax levy reductions, or property tax rebates, effective in the local
35 government's 2027 fiscal year.
36 (c-7) Notwithstanding the provisions of section seven of this act, any
37 county that opted into the local sales tax intercept methodology shall
38 receive a proportionate reduction in the sales tax intercept as
39 described in subdivisions (c-2), (c-3), (c-4), (c-5) and (c-6) of this
40 section and use these recaptured funds for property tax reductions in
41 the same manner as other local jurisdictions as described.
42 (c-8) The minimum amount of annual property tax levy reductions
43 resulting from savings achieved as defined in subdivisions (c-2), (c-3),
44 (c-4), (c-5) and (c-6) of this section, shall be determined by the state
45 comptroller and transmitted to each local government one hundred eighty
46 days in advance of the start of the fiscal year for which the property
47 tax reduction is to be effective.
48 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
