Bill Text: NY A00243 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes the commissioner of health to adopt policies to exclude certain non-recurring items from income that would artificially inflate the availability of funds to meet current needs relating to eligibility for the program for elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-27 - print number 243a [A00243 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A00243-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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243
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 5, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Aging
AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to policies excluding certain
non-recurring items from income for purposes of the program for elder-
ly pharmaceutical insurance coverage
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 241 of the elder law is amended to
2 read as follows:
3 3. "Income" shall mean "household gross income" as defined in the real
4 property tax circuit breaker credit program, pursuant to subparagraph
5 [(C)] (C) of paragraph one of subsection (e) of section six hundred six
6 of the tax law, but only shall include the income of program applicants
7 and spouses and shall exclude the income of other members of the house-
8 hold; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE PANEL MAY ADOPT POLICIES TO EXCLUDE
9 FROM INCOME CERTAIN NON-RECURRING ITEMS THAT WOULD ACT TO ARTIFICIALLY
10 INFLATE THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS TO MEET CURRENT NEEDS INCLUDING, BUT
11 NOT LIMITED TO, A RETIREE'S PREVIOUS YEAR'S WAGES, AND NON-RECURRING
12 DISTRIBUTIONS FROM AN INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT.
13 S 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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