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Assembly Bill A7545

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to granting medical assistance eligibility for kidney transplant expenses for aliens

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2019-A7545 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5722
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §365-a, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A9283, S6056
2017-2018: A6193, S333
2021-2022: S2545
2023-2024: S3577
2025-2026: S1914

2019-A7545 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Grants medical assistance eligibility for kidney transplant expenses for aliens.

2019-A7545 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7545
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to authorizing  the
   payment  of medical assistance for the provision of kidney transplants
   for certain aliens
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  365-a  of  the social services law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
   10. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE-K
 OR ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS ARTICLE, MEDICAL  ASSISTANCE  SHALL  ALSO
 INCLUDE PAYMENT FOR SURGERY, MEDICAL CARE AND PRESCRIPTION DRUGS RELATED
 TO  KIDNEY  TRANSPLANTATION  FOR ALIENS WITH END-STAGE RENAL DISEASE WHO
 ARE OTHERWISE ELIGIBLE FOR BENEFITS PURSUANT TO THIS TITLE.    AN  ALIEN
 SHALL  ONLY  BE DEEMED TO BE ELIGIBLE PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION IF HE
 OR SHE HAS UNDERGONE EMERGENCY RENAL DIALYSIS FOR A PERIOD OF  NOT  LESS
 THAN  TWO  CONSECUTIVE  YEARS  WITHIN  NEW YORK STATE, AS PROVEN BY SUCH
 MEANS AS SHALL BE DESIGNATED IN THE REGULATIONS OF THE  COMMISSIONER  OF
 HEALTH.
   §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the first day of January next
 succeeding the date on which it shall have  become  a  law.    Effective
 immediately,  the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regu-
 lation necessary for the implementation of this  act  on  its  effective
 date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective
 date.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11485-01-9

2019-A7545A - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5722
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §365-a, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A9283, S6056
2017-2018: A6193, S333
2021-2022: S2545
2023-2024: S3577
2025-2026: S1914

2019-A7545A - Summary

Grants medical assistance eligibility for kidney transplant expenses for aliens.

2019-A7545A - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  7545--A
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted  as
   amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to authorizing the
   payment of medical assistance for the provision of kidney  transplants
   for certain undocumented immigrants
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 365-a of the social  services  law  is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
   10. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE-K
 OR  ANY  OTHER  PROVISION OF THIS ARTICLE, MEDICAL ASSISTANCE SHALL ALSO
 INCLUDE PAYMENT FOR SURGERY, MEDICAL CARE AND PRESCRIPTION DRUGS RELATED
 TO KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION FOR  UNDOCUMENTED  IMMIGRANTS  WITH  END-STAGE
 RENAL  DISEASE  WHO ARE OTHERWISE ELIGIBLE FOR BENEFITS PURSUANT TO THIS
 TITLE.  AN UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT SHALL ONLY BE DEEMED  TO  BE  ELIGIBLE
 PURSUANT  TO THIS SUBDIVISION IF HE OR SHE HAS UNDERGONE EMERGENCY RENAL
 DIALYSIS FOR A PERIOD OF NOT LESS THAN TWO CONSECUTIVE YEARS WITHIN  NEW
 YORK  STATE, AS PROVEN BY SUCH MEANS AS SHALL BE DESIGNATED IN THE REGU-
 LATIONS OF THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on  the  first  day  of  January  next
 succeeding  the  date  on  which  it shall have become a law.  Effective
 immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or  regu-
 lation  necessary  for  the  implementation of this act on its effective
 date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective
 date.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11485-02-9

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