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Assembly Bill A8044

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Authorizes the panel to adopt policies to exclude certain non-recurring items from income for the program for elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage

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2009-A8044 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5457
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Elder Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง241, Eld L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A243, S122
2013-2014: A349, S345
2015-2016: A1190, S146
2017-2018: A3704, S4905
2019-2020: A3380
2021-2022: A1459
2023-2024: A8411
2025-2026: A841, A3600

2009-A8044 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the panel to adopt policies to exclude certain non-recurring items from income that would artificially inflate the availability of funds to meet current needs relating to eligibility for the program for elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage.

2009-A8044 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  8044

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               May 1, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Aging

AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to policies excluding certain
  non-recurring items from income for purposes of the program for elder-
  ly pharmaceutical insurance coverage

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 241 of the elder law is amended to
read as follows:
  3. "Income" shall mean "household gross income" as defined in the real
property tax circuit breaker credit program,  pursuant  to  subparagraph
(C) of paragraph one of subsection (e) of section six hundred six of the
tax  law,  but  only  shall include the income of program applicants and
spouses and shall exclude the income of other members of the  household;
PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  THAT  THE  PANEL MAY ADOPT POLICIES TO EXCLUDE FROM
INCOME CERTAIN  NON-RECURRING  ITEMS  THAT  WOULD  ACT  TO  ARTIFICIALLY
INFLATE  THE  AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS TO MEET CURRENT NEEDS INCLUDING, BUT
NOT LIMITED TO, A RETIREE'S PREVIOUS  YEAR'S  WAGES,  AND  NON-RECURRING
DISTRIBUTIONS FROM AN INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11612-01-9

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