Bill Text: NY A06791 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Authorizes individuals to participate in the NY State of Health marketplace without providing information regarding citizenship or lawful residency or requesting or receiving a state or federal subsidy.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to health [A06791 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A06791-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Authorizes individuals to participate in the NY State of Health marketplace without providing information regarding citizenship or lawful residency or requesting or receiving a state or federal subsidy.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to health [A06791 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A06791-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6791 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 20, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CRUZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to authorizing indi- viduals to participate in the state health benefit exchange without providing information regarding citizenship or lawful residency in the United States or requesting or receiving a state or federal subsidy The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 31 to read as follows: 3 31. The commissioner shall require, in consultation and cooperation 4 with the superintendent of financial services, that the eligibility 5 requirements for health care coverage through the state health benefit 6 exchange established pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and 7 Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148), as amended by the federal Health 8 Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (P.L. 111-152), shall not 9 include requirements that individuals provide any information regarding 10 citizenship or lawful residency in the United States. Such eligibility 11 requirements shall also authorize any individual who pays all associated 12 costs, without requesting or receiving a state or federal subsidy, to 13 participate in the state health benefit exchange. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10805-02-9