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May 27, 2022
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. McMahon) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to medical assist-
ance to certain disabled individuals
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subparagraph 5 of paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section
366 of the social services law, as added by section 1 of part D of chap-
ter 56 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
(5) A disabled individual at least sixteen years of age, but under the
age of sixty-five, who: would be eligible for benefits under the supple-
mental security income program but for earnings in excess of the allow-
able limit; has net available income that does not exceed two hundred
fifty percent of the applicable federal income official poverty line, as
defined and updated by the United States department of health and human
services, for a one-person or two-person household, as defined by the
commissioner in regulation; has household resources, as defined in para-
graph (e) of subdivision two of section three hundred sixty-six-c of
this title, other than retirement accounts, that do not exceed [twenty
thousand dollars for a one-person household or thirty thousand dollars
for a two-person household, as defined by the commissioner in regu-
lation] ONE HUNDRED FIFTY PERCENT OF THE INCOME AMOUNT PERMITTED UNDER
SUBPARAGRAPH SEVEN OF PARAGRAPH (A) OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION,
FOR A ONE-PERSON OR TWO-PERSON HOUSEHOLD, AS DEFINED BY THE COMMISSIONER
IN REGULATION; and contributes to the cost of medical assistance
provided pursuant to this subparagraph in accordance with subdivision
twelve of section three hundred sixty-seven-a of this title; for
purposes of this subparagraph, disabled means having a medically deter-
minable impairment of sufficient severity and duration to qualify for
benefits under section 1902(a)(10)(A)(ii)(xv) of the social security
act.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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