STATE OF NEW YORK
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6641--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 3, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to licensure require-
ments and reimbursements for certain home health services
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
2 610 to read as follows:
3 § 610. State aid; home visit core public health services. 1. Notwith-
4 standing any other provision of law, a visit to the home by a nurse to
5 provide a core public health service, as defined in section six hundred
6 two of this article, by a county or city public health agency that
7 receives funding under this article and that is for purposes of meeting
8 statutory requirements of this article, and is not intended to serve as
9 nursing services within the meaning of article thirty-six of this chap-
10 ter, shall not otherwise be subject to licensure under any other
11 provision of law.
12 2. If the commissioner determines that the scope of services provided
13 by a local health department established under this section exceeds the
14 limits prescribed, he or she may require that such city or county public
15 health agency be subject to the requirements set forth in article thir-
16 ty-six of this chapter.
17 3. If the commissioner determines that the core public health
18 services, as defined in section six hundred two of this article, when
19 provided by local health departments in the home as authorized under
20 this section, are eligible for reimbursement under title XIX of the
21 federal Social Security Act and meet federal and state requirements for
22 such reimbursement, a municipality shall seek reimbursement as required
23 by subdivision three of section six hundred six of this article.
24 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11043-04-3
