S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6778
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 12, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. SCHIMMINGER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
HOOPER, J. RIVERA, N. RIVERA, TOWNS -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to eligibility for
medical assistance
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subparagraph 2 of paragraph (n), subparagraph 2 of para-
graph (o), and subparagraph 2 of paragraph (p) of subdivision 4 of
section 366 of the social services law, subparagraph 2 of paragraph (n)
as added by chapter 584 of the laws of 1989, subparagraph 2 of paragraph
(o) and subparagraph 2 of paragraph (p) as amended by section 97 of part
B of chapter 436 of the laws of 1997, are amended to read as follows:
(2) For purposes of this paragraph, resources available to such fami-
lies OF LESS THAN FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS shall not be considered nor
required to be applied toward the payment or part payment of the cost of
medical assistance care, services and supplies available under this
paragraph.
(2) For purposes of determining eligibility under this paragraph,
family income is determined by use of the same methodology used to
determine eligibility for the aid to dependent children program as it
existed on the sixteenth day of July, nineteen hundred ninety-six and
resources available to such family OF LESS THAN FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
shall not be considered nor required to be applied to the cost of
medical care, services or supplies available under this paragraph.
(2) For purposes of determining eligibility for medical assistance
under this paragraph, family income shall be determined by use of the
same methodology used to determine eligibility for the aid to dependent
children program as it existed on the sixteenth day of July, nineteen
hundred ninety-six provided, however, that costs incurred for medical or
remedial care shall not be considered and resources available to such
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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families OF LESS THAN FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS shall not be considered nor
required to be applied toward the payment or part payment of the cost of
medical care, services and supplies available under this paragraph.
S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
it shall have become a law. Effective immediately the commissioners of
health and temporary and disability assistance are authorized to promul-
gate any and all rules and regulations and take any other measures
necessary to implement this act on its effective date on or before such
date.