Assembly Bill A11419

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to excluding qualified medical expenses from the definition of income for purposes of eligibility in EPIC

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A11419 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Aging
Law Section:
Elder Law
Laws Affected:
amd ยง241, Eld L

2009-A11419 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to excluding qualified medical expenses from the definition of income for purposes of eligiblity in EPIC.

2009-A11419 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  11419

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 11, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Koon) --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Aging

AN ACT to amend the  elder  law,  in  relation  to  excluding  qualified
  medical  expenses from the definition of income for purposes of eligi-
  bility in EPIC

  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]:  (I) income of other members of the
household; AND
  (II) QUALIFIED MEDICAL EXPENSES OF SUCH APPLICANTS.
  S 2. Section 241 of the elder law is amended by adding a new  subdivi-
sion 8 to read as follows:
  8.  "QUALIFIED  MEDICAL  EXPENSE"  SHALL  MEAN  EXPENSES  ELIGIBLE FOR
DEDUCTION UNDER SECTION TWO HUNDRED THIRTEEN-D OF THE  INTERNAL  REVENUE
CODE.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD17581-01-0

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