Bill Text: NY A05901 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Imposes a one year residency requirement for eligibility for medical assistance; authorizes the commissioner of health to promulgate any and all rules and regulations and take any other measures necessary to implement this act.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to health [A05901 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A05901-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5901
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 8, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. DIPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Health
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to imposing a one
year residency requirement for eligibility for medical assistance
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 117 of the social services law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
3 4. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY INCONSISTENT PROVISION OF THE FOREGOING SUBDI-
4 VISIONS OF THIS SECTION OR ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, FOR THE PURPOSES
5 OF ELIGIBILITY FOR MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PURSUANT TO TITLE ELEVEN OF ARTI-
6 CLE FIVE OF THIS CHAPTER OR ANY SUCCESSOR PROVISIONS THEREOF, NO PERSON
7 SHALL BE ELIGIBLE THEREFOR UNLESS SUCH PERSON SHALL HAVE BEEN A RESIDENT
8 OF THIS STATE FOR ONE YEAR OR MORE.
9 S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
10 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately the commissioner of
11 health is authorized to promulgate any and all rules and regulations and
12 take any other measures necessary to implement this act on its effective
13 date on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04602-01-3
