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                                  3353

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 17, 2011
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Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Aging

AN ACT to amend the elder law, in  relation  to  increasing  the  income
  levels  for eligible participants in the elderly pharmaceutical insur-
  ance coverage program (EPIC)

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

  Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 242 of the elder law, para-
graph  (b)  of subdivision 1 and paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision 2
as amended by section 14 of part B of chapter 57 of the  laws  of  2006,
are amended to read as follows:
  1.  Persons  eligible  for  comprehensive  coverage  under section two
hundred forty-seven of this title shall include:
  (a) any unmarried resident who is at least sixty-five years of age and
whose income for the calendar year immediately preceding  the  effective
date  of the annual coverage period beginning on or after January first,
two  thousand  [five]  TWELVE,  is  less  than  or  equal  to   [twenty]
THIRTY-SEVEN  thousand FIVE HUNDRED dollars.  After the initial determi-
nation of eligibility, each eligible  individual  must  be  redetermined
eligible at least every twenty-four months; and
  (b)  any  married resident who is at least sixty-five years of age and
whose income for the calendar year immediately preceding  the  effective
date  of the annual coverage period when combined with the income in the
same calendar year of such married person's spouse beginning on or after
January first, two thousand [one] TWELVE,  is  less  than  or  equal  to
[twenty-six]  SIXTY-FIVE  thousand  dollars.  After the initial determi-
nation of eligibility, each eligible  individual  must  be  redetermined
eligible at least every twenty-four months.
  2.  Persons  eligible  for  catastrophic  coverage  under  section two
hundred forty-eight of this title shall include:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  (a) any unmarried resident who is at least sixty-five years of age and
whose income for the calendar year immediately preceding  the  effective
date  of the annual coverage period beginning on or after January first,
two thousand [one] TWELVE, is more than twenty thousand and less than or
equal to [thirty-five] THIRTY-SEVEN thousand FIVE HUNDRED dollars. After
the  initial determination of eligibility, each eligible individual must
be redetermined eligible at least every twenty-four months; and
  (b) any married resident who is at least sixty-five years of  age  and
whose  income  for the calendar year immediately preceding the effective
date of the annual coverage period when combined with the income in  the
same calendar year of such married person's spouse beginning on or after
January  first, two thousand [one] TWELVE, is more than twenty-six thou-
sand dollars and less than  or  equal  to  [fifty]  SIXTY-FIVE  thousand
dollars.  After  the initial determination of eligibility, each eligible
individual must be redetermined  eligible  at  least  every  twenty-four
months.
  S 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2012.