S4948 • 2025

Relates to reimbursement for non-medical transportation for individuals with a substance use disorder to receive peer support services

Healthcare

Passed Legislature

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Sponsor: Pete Harckham
Last action: 2026-04-29
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Relates to reimbursement for non-medical transportation for individuals with a substance use disorder to receive peer support services

Relates to reimbursement for non-medical transportation for individuals with a substance use disorder to receive peer support services Relates to reimbursement for non-medical transportation for individuals with a substance use disorder to receive peer support services.

What This Bill Does

Relates to reimbursement for non-medical transportation for individuals with a substance use disorder to receive peer support services Relates to reimbursement for non-medical transportation for individuals with a substance use disorder to receive peer support services.

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Bill History

2026-04-29 Senate
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
2026-04-20 Senate
AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO ALCOHOLISM AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS
2026-04-20 Senate
PRINT NUMBER 4948A
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO ALCOHOLISM AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS
2025-03-12 Senate
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
2025-02-14 Senate
REFERRED TO ALCOHOLISM AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS

Official Summary Text

Relates to reimbursement for non-medical transportation for individuals with a substance use disorder to receive peer support services
Relates to reimbursement for non-medical transportation for individuals with a substance use disorder to receive peer support services.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          4948

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                    February 14, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Alcoholism  and  Substance
          Use Disorders

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to reimbursement for
          non-medical transportation for individuals with a substance use disor-
          der to receive peer support services

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  19.18-d to read as follows:
     3  § 19.18-D REIMBURSEMENT FOR TRANSPORTATION TO PEER SUPPORT SERVICES.
     4    THE  OFFICE SHALL ESTABLISH REIMBURSEMENT RATES FOR NON-MEDICAL TRANS-
     5  PORTATION FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH  A  SUBSTANCE  USE  DISORDER  TO  RECEIVE
     6  SERVICES  FROM  A PEER CERTIFIED BY THE OFFICE OF ADDICTION SERVICES AND
     7  SUPPORTS. AS PART OF THE DEVELOPMENT  OF  SUCH  RATES,  THE  OFFICE,  IN
     8  CONSULTATION  WITH  THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, SHALL PURSUE FEDERAL MEDI-
     9  CAID PARTICIPATION AND REIMBURSEMENT.   THE OFFICE SHALL  ALSO  CONSIDER
    10  THE  USE  OF  ANY FEDERAL GRANTS, INCLUDING STATE OPIOID RESPONSE GRANTS
    11  AND SUPPLEMENTAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT BLOCK  GRANTS,
    12  TO  SUPPORT SUCH REIMBURSEMENT. SUCH REIMBURSEMENT RATES SHALL BE ESTAB-
    13  LISHED BY APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SIX.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    15  have  become  a  law.    Effective  immediately, the addition, amendment
    16  and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
    17  of this act on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to  be  made  and
    18  completed on or before such effective date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01569-01-5