STATE OF NEW YORK
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3981--B
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 31, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. SAVINO, AVELLA, CARLUCCI, HAMILTON, ORTT, RITCHIE --
read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
the Committee on Health -- reported favorably from said committee and
committed to the Committee on Finance -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with
Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
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 (ff) to read as follows:
3 (ff) 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.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
8 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01543-08-8
