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S 1790: Includes care and services provided by a child advocacy center licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized by the office of children and family services under standard coverage for Medicaid recipients.

New York · Senate · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified January 8, 2026

What S 1790 does, verified January 8, 2026

The proposed law aims to expand Medicaid coverage to include care and services provided by child advocacy centers. These centers are licensed, certified, or authorized by the Office of Children and Family Services. The law will take effect 180 days after it becomes a law. Additionally, the law allows for the immediate implementation of necessary rules and regulations to support its effective date. This expansion aims to provide better access to essential services for Medicaid recipients.

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Last action: REFERRED TO HEALTH (2026-01-07)Alert me
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Jan. 07, 2026REFERRED TO HEALTH
Jan. 13, 2025REFERRED TO HEALTH
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 13, 2025 · 237 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1790 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 13, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to including care and services provided by a child advocacy center under standard cover- age 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 (nn) to read as follows: 3 (nn) care and services provided by a child advocacy center established 4 pursuant to section four hundred twenty-three-a of this chapter which is 5 licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized by the office of children 6 and family services. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 8 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 9 ment, and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the imple- 10 mentation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made 11 and completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04382-01-5 
Text of S 1790 as introduced, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions
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