Includes applied behavioral analysis provided by a licensed behavior analyst or certified behavior analyst assistant under standard coverage for Medicaid recipients.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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299--B
Cal. No. 21
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 6, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED, ABINANTI, SANTABARBARA, FAHY, ASHBY,
SAYEGH, DeSTEFANO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
-- reported and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- commit-
tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
mitted to said committee -- ordered to a third reading, amended and
ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to including
applied behavioral analysis under standard coverage for Medicaid
recipients
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 (jj) to read as follows:
3 (jj) applied behavior analysis, under article one hundred sixty-seven
4 of the education law, provided by a person licensed, certified, or
5 otherwise authorized to provide applied behavior analysis under that
6 article.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
8 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the commissioner of
9 health shall make regulations and take other actions reasonably neces-
10 sary to implement this act on that date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00231-05-1
