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Assembly Bill A5212

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Imposes a one year residency requirement for eligibility for medical assistance

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2019-A5212 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S262
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §117, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S3363
2013-2014: A5901, S550
2015-2016: A3663, S3652
2017-2018: A4834, S679
2021-2022: S3488
2023-2024: S782
2025-2026: S2210

2019-A5212 (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.

2019-A5212 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5212
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 7, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 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.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD02269-01-9

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