What's happening
This bill requires New York to integrate adults with traumatic brain injuries into certain services in rural counties lacking appropriate support.
Why it matters
Expands access to essential support services for adults who have experienced traumatic brain injuries (TBI) after age 21. , specifically in rural counties where such services are currently lacking, addressing a significant gap in care for this vulnerable population.
Mandates collaboration between the Department of Health and the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities. to ensure these individuals can participate in existing programs designed for people with developmental disabilities, leveraging existing infrastructure rather than creating entirely new services.
Guarantees a broad range of services—including medical, housing, vocational, educational, transportation, and personal care—are made available to qualifying individuals. , which could improve quality of life, promote community integration, and reduce isolation for TBI survivors in underserved regions.
Specifies that Medicaid will fund these expanded services. , potentially increasing state investment but also ensuring that financial barriers do not prevent eligible individuals from accessing critical supports.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
8747
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
November 25, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred 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 Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2745 to read as follows:
§ 2745. Counties with limited service capacity. 1. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the commissioner and the commissioner of developmental disabilities shall enter into a cooperative agreement to allow the integration of individuals with traumatic brain injury sustained after age twenty-one into programs certified pursuant to article sixteen of the mental hygiene law in counties where there is a lack of appropriate services for individuals with traumatic brain injury.
2. Services available to individuals with traumatic brain injury sustained after age twenty-one pursuant to this section shall include, but not be limited to, medical, housing, vocational, educational, transportation, social, personal care, family support, day program, community re-entry, outpatient rehabilitation, habilitation and other essential services.
3. Funding for services provided under this section shall be provided by department of health Medicaid resources.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
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