STATE OF NEW YORK
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4285--A
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 2, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. P. RIVERA, GOTTFRIED, CANESTRARI, CLARK, GUNTHER,
DINOWITZ, WEISENBERG, ENGLEBRIGHT, SCARBOROUGH, JACOBS, McENENY,
COLTON, CAHILL, KAVANAGH, LUPARDO, ABINANTI -- Multi-Sponsored by --
M. of A. ABBATE, ARROYO, AUBRY, BENEDETTO, BOYLAND, BRENNAN,
BROOK-KRASNY, CAMARA, COOK, CYMBROWITZ, DUPREY, GALEF, GLICK, HEVESI,
HIKIND, HOOPER, NOLAN, O'DONNELL, ORTIZ, PAULIN, PEOPLES-STOKES,
PERRY, RAMOS, REILLY, J. RIVERA, N. RIVERA, ROBINSON, ROSENTHAL, SWEE-
NEY, TITUS, WEINSTEIN, WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance
with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- reported and referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to establishing
mental health parity for 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. Subparagraph (ix) of paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of
2 section 369-ee of the social services law, as added by chapter 1 of the
3 laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows:
4 (ix) inpatient and outpatient mental health and alcohol and substance
5 abuse services, as defined by the commissioner, provided that coverage
6 for mental health, alcohol and substance abuse services shall be
7 provided on the same terms and conditions as the coverage for other
8 covered health care services;
9 § 2. The commissioner of health is authorized to submit amendments to
10 the state plan for medical assistance and submit one or more applica-
11 tions for waivers of the federal social security act as may be necessary
12 to obtain the federal approvals necessary to implement this chapter.
13 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
14 the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00404-03-2
