Bill Text: NY A00928 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 928 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Provides that an individual shall not become ineligible under the EPIC program due to an increase in social security benefits or a public or private pension where such increase does not exceed the consumer price index.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 32-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-23 - substituted by s3483a [A00928 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00928-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         928--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. CARROLL, BENEDETTO, ABBATE, COLTON, GOTTFRIED,
          PEOPLES-STOKES,  J. RIVERA,   L. ROSENTHAL,   GUNTHER,   SANTABARBARA,
          STIRPE,  BARRETT,  ENGLEBRIGHT, DICKENS, BUTTENSCHON, SAYEGH, FRONTUS,
          FALL, CRUZ, DINOWITZ, MONTESANO, GRIFFIN, ANDERSON, JACKSON,  BARNWELL
          -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, CUSICK, GLICK, PERRY, SIMON --
          read  once  and  referred  to  the  Committee on Aging -- reported and
          referred to the Committee on Ways and  Means  --  recommitted  to  the
          Committee on Ways and Means in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2
          --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
          and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the elder law, in  relation  to  eligibility  under  the
          program for elderly 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 242 of the elder law is amended by
     2  adding a new paragraph (i) to read as follows:
     3    (i) An individual who is determined  to  be  eligible  for  assistance
     4  under  this article shall not become ineligible based upon income solely
     5  because of an increase in either a  public  or  private  pension  or  an
     6  increase in social security benefits as provided under federal law where
     7  such increase does not exceed the consumer price index (all items United
     8  States city average) for such year.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2023.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05241-03-2