Requires medical assistance be provided to victims of domestic violence, as defined in section 459-a of this chapter, to care for and treat any scarring resulting from the domestic violence incident.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1050
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 10, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to providing
medical assistance to needy persons for the care and treatment of
scarring resulting from domestic abuse
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 365-a of the social services law
2 is amended by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows:
3 (f) Medical assistance shall include physician services and any surgi-
4 cal services, including plastic surgery, that are necessary to care for
5 and treat any scarring or scar tissue that formed as the result of an
6 incident of domestic violence as defined in section four hundred fifty-
7 nine-a of this chapter.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
9 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the commissioner of
10 health shall establish rules for acceptable forms of proof of an inci-
11 dent of domestic violence.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00908-01-9
