STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2471 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 17, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BENDETT -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Health AN ACT to amend section 1 of part C of chapter 58 of the laws of 2005 relating to authorizing reimbursements for expenditures made by or on behalf of social services districts for medical assistance for needy persons and the administration thereof, in relation to phasing out such reimbursements The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision (c) of section 1 of part C of chapter 58 of the 2 laws of 2005 relating to authorizing reimbursements for expenditures 3 made by or on behalf of social services districts for medical assistance 4 for needy persons and the administration thereof, is amended and twelve 5 new subdivisions (c-2), (c-3), (c-4), (c-5), (c-6), (c-7), (c-8), (c-9), 6 (c-10), (c-11), (c-12) and (c-13) are added to read as follows: 7 (c) Commencing with the calendar year beginning January 1, 2006, 8 calendar year social services district medical assistance expenditure 9 amounts for each social services district shall be calculated by multi- 10 plying the results of the calculations performed pursuant to paragraph 11 (b) of this section by a non-compounded trend factor, as follows: 12 (i) 2006 (January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2006): 3.5%; 13 (ii) 2007 (January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2007): 6.75% (3.25% 14 plus the prior year's 3.5%); 15 (iii) 2008 (January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008): 9.75% (3% 16 plus the prior year's 6.75%); 17 (iv) 2009 (January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009), and each 18 succeeding calendar year through December 31, 2025: prior year's trend 19 factor percentage plus 3%. 20 (c-2) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 368-a of the social 21 services law, or any other provision of law, commencing with the period 22 January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2025, calendar year social services EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06178-01-5
A. 2471 2 1 district medical assistance expenditure amounts for each social services 2 district shall be reduced by 10% from the 2024 expenditures. No less 3 than 100% of the annual savings from this medical assistance expenditure 4 reduction, compared to the prior year medical assistance expenditure, 5 shall be used for property tax levy reductions, or property tax rebates, 6 effective in the local government's 2026 fiscal year. This section shall 7 apply only to the local governments as defined by, and subject to, the 8 provisions of section 3-c of the general municipal law and section 9 2023-a of the education law. 10 (c-3) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 368-a of the social 11 services law, or any other provision of law, commencing with the period 12 January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2026, calendar year social services 13 district medical assistance expenditure amounts for each social services 14 district shall be reduced by 20% from the 2024 expenditures. No less 15 than 100% of the annual savings from this medical assistance expenditure 16 reduction, compared to the prior year medical assistance expenditure, 17 shall be used for property tax levy reductions, or property tax rebates, 18 effective in the local government's 2027 fiscal year. This section shall 19 apply only to the local governments as defined by, and subject to, the 20 provisions of section 3-c of the general municipal law and section 21 2023-a of the education law. 22 (c-4) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 368-a of the social 23 services law, or any other provision of law, commencing with the period 24 January 1, 2027 through December 31, 2027, calendar year social services 25 district medical assistance expenditure amounts for each social services 26 district shall be reduced by 30% from the 2024 expenditures. No less 27 than 100% of the annual savings from this medical assistance expenditure 28 reduction, compared to the prior year medical assistance expenditure, 29 shall be used for property tax levy reductions, or property tax rebates, 30 effective in the local government's 2028 fiscal year. This section shall 31 apply only to the local governments as defined by, and subject to, the 32 provisions of section 3-c of the general municipal law and section 33 2023-a of the education law. 34 (c-5) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 368-a of the social 35 services law, or any other provision of law, commencing with the period 36 January 1, 2028 through December 31, 2028, calendar year social services 37 district medical assistance expenditure amounts for each social services 38 district shall be reduced by 40% from the 2024 expenditures. No less 39 than 100% of the annual savings from this medical assistance expenditure 40 reduction, compared to the prior year medical assistance expenditure, 41 shall be used for property tax levy reductions, or property tax rebates, 42 effective in the local government's 2029 fiscal year. This section shall 43 apply only to the local governments as defined by, and subject to, the 44 provisions of section 3-c of the general municipal law and section 45 2023-a of the education law. 46 (c-6) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 368-a of the social 47 services law, or any other provision of law, commencing with the period 48 January 1, 2029 through December 31, 2029, calendar year social services 49 district medical assistance expenditure amounts for each social services 50 district shall be reduced by 50% from the 2024 expenditures. No less 51 than 100% of the annual savings from this medical assistance expenditure 52 reduction, compared to the prior year medical assistance expenditure, 53 shall be used for property tax levy reductions, or property tax rebates, 54 effective in the local government's 2030 fiscal year. This section shall 55 apply only to the local governments as defined by, and subject to, the
A. 2471 3 1 provisions of section 3-c of the general municipal law and section 2 2023-a of the education law. 3 (c-7) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 368-a of the social 4 services law, or any other provision of law, commencing with the period 5 January 1, 2030 through December 31, 2030, calendar year social services 6 district medical assistance expenditure amounts for each social services 7 district shall be reduced by 60% from the 2024 expenditures. No less 8 than 100% of the annual savings from this medical assistance expenditure 9 reduction, compared to the prior year medical assistance expenditure, 10 shall be used for property tax levy reductions, or property tax rebates, 11 effective in the local government's 2031 fiscal year. This section shall 12 apply only to the local governments as defined by, and subject to, the 13 provisions of section 3-c of the general municipal law and section 14 2023-a of the education law. 15 (c-8) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 368-a of the social 16 services law, or any other provision of law, commencing with the period 17 January 1, 2031 through December 31, 2031, calendar year social services 18 district medical assistance expenditure amounts for each social services 19 district shall be reduced by 70% from the 2024 expenditures. No less 20 than 100% of the annual savings from this medical assistance expenditure 21 reduction, compared to the prior year medical assistance expenditure, 22 shall be used for property tax levy reductions, or property tax rebates, 23 effective in the local government's 2032 fiscal year. This section shall 24 apply only to the local governments as defined by, and subject to, the 25 provisions of section 3-c of the general municipal law and section 26 2023-a of the education law. 27 (c-9) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 368-a of the social 28 services law, or any other provision of law, commencing with the period 29 January 1, 2032 through December 31, 2032, calendar year social services 30 district medical assistance expenditure amounts for each social services 31 district shall be reduced by 80% from the 2024 expenditures. No less 32 than 100% of the annual savings from this medical assistance expenditure 33 reduction, compared to the prior year medical assistance expenditure, 34 shall be used for property tax levy reductions, or property tax rebates, 35 effective in the local government's 2033 fiscal year. This section shall 36 apply only to the local governments as defined by, and subject to, the 37 provisions of section 3-c of the general municipal law and section 38 2023-a of the education law. 39 (c-10) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 368-a of the social 40 services law, or any other provision of law, commencing with the period 41 January 1, 2033 through December 31, 2033, calendar year social services 42 district medical assistance expenditure amounts for each social services 43 district shall be reduced by 90% from the 2024 expenditures. No less 44 than 100% of the annual savings from this medical assistance expenditure 45 reduction, compared to the prior year medical assistance expenditure, 46 shall be used for property tax levy reductions, or property tax rebates, 47 effective in the local government's 2034 fiscal year. This section shall 48 apply only to the local governments as defined by, and subject to, the 49 provisions of section 3-c of the general municipal law and section 50 2023-a of the education law. 51 (c-11) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 368-a of the social 52 services law, or any other provision of law, commencing with the period 53 January 1, 2034 through December 31, 2034, calendar year social services 54 district medical assistance expenditure amounts for each social services 55 district shall be reduced by 100% from the 2024 expenditures; and shall 56 remain eliminated each year thereafter. No less than 100% of the annual
A. 2471 4 1 savings from this medical assistance expenditure reduction, compared to 2 the prior year medical assistance expenditure, shall be used for proper- 3 ty tax levy reductions, or property tax rebates, effective in the local 4 government's 2035 fiscal year. This section shall apply only to the 5 local governments as defined by, and subject to, the provisions of 6 section 3-c of the general municipal law and section 2023-a of the 7 education law. 8 (c-12) Notwithstanding the provisions of section seven of this act, 9 any county that opted into the local sales tax intercept methodology 10 shall receive a proportionate reduction in the sales tax intercept as 11 described in subdivisions (c-2), (c-3), (c-4), (c-5), (c-6), (c-7), 12 (c-8), (c-9), (c-10) and (c-11) of this section and use these recaptured 13 funds for property tax reductions in the same manner as other local 14 jurisdictions as described. 15 (c-13) The minimum amount of annual property tax levy reductions 16 resulting from savings achieved as defined in subdivisions (c-2), (c-3), 17 (c-4), (c-5), (c-6), (c-7), (c-8), (c-9), (c-10) and (c-11) of this 18 section, shall be determined by the state comptroller and transmitted to 19 each local government one hundred eighty days in advance of the start of 20 the fiscal year for which the property tax reduction is to be effective. 21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.