S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 4, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. HYER-SPENCER, JOHN, LANCMAN, GREENE, DelMONTE,
WRIGHT, ROSENTHAL, JAFFEE, BING, GUNTHER, ALFANO, TITONE, ERRIGO,
BURLING, WALKER, KOLB, McKEVITT, FINCH, SPANO, SCOZZAFAVA, RAIA, BENE-
DETTO, CONTE, RAMOS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, ALESSI,
BACALLES, BARRA, BOYLAND, CROUCH, DIAZ, GALEF, GLICK, GOTTFRIED, HOOP-
ER, V. LOPEZ, MAGEE, MAYERSOHN, McDONOUGH, McENENY, PERRY, QUINN,
REILICH, REILLY, STIRPE, SWEENEY, THIELE, TOWNS, WEISENBERG -- read
once and referred 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] TEN, is less than or equal to [twenty] 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] TEN, is less than or equal to [twen-
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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ty-six] SIXTY-FIVE thousand dollars. After the initial determination 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:
(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] TEN, 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] TEN, is more than twenty-six thousand
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, 2010.