Bill Text: NY A06357 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Imposes a ninety day 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: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to social services [A06357 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06357-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6357
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 20, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SCHIMMINGER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
         GIGLIO, HOOPER, MAGEE -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on
         Social Services
       AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to imposing a nine-
         ty day 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  NINETY
    8  DAYS OR MORE A RESIDENT OF THIS STATE.
    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.
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