Bill Text: NY A05396 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides information regarding termination of medicare part B coverage for the duration of incarceration to individuals committed to the department of corrections and community supervision.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-29 - RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY [A05396 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A05396-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5396 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 10, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, WEPRIN, BURDICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to providing information regarding medicare part B coverage to certain individuals The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 71 of the correction law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 7-a to read as follows: 3 7-a. Whenever the department receives information that a person 4 committed to the department is a medicare part B recipient, the depart- 5 ment shall provide to such person information regarding termination of 6 medicare part B coverage for the duration of incarceration. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08139-01-3