Senate Bill S550

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Imposes a one year residency requirement for eligibility for medical assistance

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Social Services Committee

  • 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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2013-S550 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5901
Current Committee:
Senate Social Services
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §117, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S3363
2015-2016: S3652, A3663
2017-2018: S679, A4834
2019-2020: S262, A5212
2021-2022: S3488
2023-2024: S782

2013-S550 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Imposes a one year residency requirement for eligibility for medical assistance; authorizes the commissioner of health to promulgate any and all rules and regulations and take any other measures necessary to implement this act.

2013-S550 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S550 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                   550

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sen. GRISANTI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services

AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to imposing  a  one
  year residency requirement for eligibility for medical assistance

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

  Section 1. Section 117 of the social services law is amended by adding
a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
  4. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY INCONSISTENT PROVISION OF THE FOREGOING  SUBDI-
VISIONS  OF THIS SECTION OR ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, FOR THE PURPOSES
OF ELIGIBILITY FOR MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PURSUANT TO TITLE ELEVEN OF  ARTI-
CLE  FIVE OF THIS CHAPTER OR ANY SUCCESSOR PROVISIONS THEREOF, NO PERSON
SHALL BE ELIGIBLE THEREFOR UNLESS SUCH PERSON SHALL HAVE BEEN A RESIDENT
OF THIS STATE FOR ONE YEAR OR MORE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
it shall have become a law. Effective immediately  the  commissioner  of
health is authorized to promulgate 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.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04602-01-3

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