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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         6583--B
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 28, 2016
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sens. HANNON, HOYLMAN, KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Children
          and Families -- committee discharged and said bill  committed  to  the
          Committee  on  Health  --  reported  favorably from said committee and
          committed to the Committee  on  Finance  with  amendments  --  ordered
          reprinted  as  amended  and  recommitted to said committee -- reported
          favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee on  Rules
          --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
          and recommitted to said committee
 
        AN ACT to amend the  social  services  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
          medical  assistance  coverage  for  the  cost  of donor breast milk in
          certain circumstances
 
          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 (dd) to read as follows:
     3    (dd) the cost of donor breast milk, for home and  inpatient  use,  for
     4  which  a licensed medical practitioner has issued an order for an infant
     5  who is medically or physically unable to receive maternal breast milk or
     6  participate in breast feeding or whose mother is medically or physically
     7  unable to produce maternal breast milk or participate in breast feeding.
     8  Such infant must: (i) have a documented birth  weight  of  one  thousand
     9  five  hundred grams or less; (ii) have a congenital or acquired intesti-
    10  nal condition, and is therefore at a high risk for development of  feed-
    11  ing  intolerance,  necrotizing  enterocolitis and/or infection; or (iii)
    12  otherwise require nourishment by breast milk.  Coverage for donor breast
    13  milk shall be not less than the reasonable cost of  such  milk  procured
    14  from  a  certified  milk  bank,  plus reasonable processing and handling
    15  fees.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    17  ing 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.
                                                                   LBD13070-10-6