Amd Part C §1, Chap 58 of 2005; add §3-e, Gen Muni L
 
Relates to calculating social services district medical assistance expenditure amounts and to a county property tax levy reduction resulting from medical assistance program expenditure reductions.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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328--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. AKSHAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government --
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; and to amend the general municipal law, in
relation to county property tax levy reduction resulting from medical
assistance program expenditure reductions
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 1 of part C of chapter 58 of the laws of 2005,
2 relating to authorizing reimbursements for expenditures made by or on
3 behalf of social services districts for medical assistance for needy
4 persons and the administration thereof, is amended by adding a new
5 subdivision (c-2) to read as follows:
6 (c-2) Notwithstanding any provisions of subdivisions (c) and (c-1) of
7 this section to the contrary, effective April 1, 2020, for the period
8 January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020 and for each calendar year
9 thereafter, the medical assistance expenditure amount for the social
10 services district for such period shall be the greater of (i) zero; or
11 (ii) the previous calendar year's medical assistance expenditure amount
12 minus 20% of the medical assistance expenditure amount for the period
13 January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2020, except that for the period
14 January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020, the previous calendar year
15 medical assistance expenditure amount will be unchanged. The provisions
16 of this subdivision shall not apply to any social services district
17 containing a city having a population of one million or more.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 2. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new section 3-e
2 to read as follows:
3 § 3-e. County property tax levy reduction resulting from medical
4 assistance program expenditure reductions. Notwithstanding any other
5 provision of law to the contrary, in the event a county's local contrib-
6 ution to New York state's share of payments under the medical assistance
7 program are reduced or eliminated as a result of changes in federal or
8 state statute, the amount of such reduction or elimination shall be
9 applied as an equal dollar amount reduction in the property tax levy of
10 such county.
11 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.