STATE OF NEW YORK
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4805
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 26, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. RANZENHOFER, RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the services for
individuals with traumatic brain injuries in rural areas
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
2 2745 to read as follows:
3 § 2745. Counties with limited service capacity. 1. Notwithstanding
4 any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the commissioner and the
5 commissioner of developmental disabilities shall enter into a cooper-
6 ative agreement to allow the integration of individuals with traumatic
7 brain injury sustained after age twenty-one into programs certified
8 pursuant to article sixteen of the mental hygiene law in counties where
9 there is a lack of appropriate services for individuals with traumatic
10 brain injury.
11 2. Services available to individuals with traumatic brain injury
12 sustained after age twenty-one pursuant to this section shall include,
13 but not be limited to, medical, housing, vocational, educational, trans-
14 portation, social, personal care, family support, day program, community
15 re-entry, outpatient rehabilitation, habilitation and other essential
16 services.
17 3. Funding for services provided under this section shall be provided
18 by department of health Medicaid resources.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
20 have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediately, the
21 addition and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the
22 implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized and
23 directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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