Bill Text: NY A06735 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 6735

Introduced

Bill Title: Grants medical assistance eligibility for kidney transplant expenses for residents of New York with end-stage renal disease who are otherwise eligible for benefits except for their immigration status.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A06735 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06735-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6735

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 8, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. GONZALEZ-ROJAS -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to authorizing  the
          payment  of medical assistance for the provision of kidney transplants
          for certain residents of New York

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  365-a  of  the social services law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
     3    11. Notwithstanding the provisions of section one hundred thirty-one-k
     4  or any other provision of this article, medical  assistance  shall  also
     5  include payment for surgery, medical care and prescription drugs related
     6  to kidney transplantation for residents of New York with end-stage renal
     7  disease  who  are otherwise eligible for benefits pursuant to this title
     8  except for their immigration status.  A resident of New York shall  only
     9  be  deemed  to be eligible pursuant to this subdivision if he or she has
    10  undergone emergency renal dialysis for a period of  not  less  than  two
    11  consecutive  years  within  New  York  state, as proven by such means as
    12  shall be designated in the regulations of the commissioner of health.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on  the  first  day  of  January  next
    14  succeeding  the  date  on  which  it shall have become a law.  Effective
    15  immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or  regu-
    16  lation  necessary  for  the  implementation of this act on its effective
    17  date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective
    18  date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08082-02-3