Bill Text: NY A07180 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides eligibility for medical assistance benefits for infants up to age three.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A07180 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07180-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7180

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 12, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to medical  assist-
          ance eligibility of infants up to the age of three years

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraphs 2 and 3 of paragraph (b) of subdivision 1  of
     2  section  366 of the social services law, as added by section 1 of part D
     3  of chapter 56 of the laws of 2013, are amended to read as follows:
     4    (2) A pregnant woman or an infant younger than [one year] three  years
     5  of  age  is  eligible for standard coverage if his or her MAGI household
     6  income does not exceed the MAGI-equivalent of two hundred percent of the
     7  federal poverty line for the applicable  family  size,  which  shall  be
     8  calculated  in  accordance  with guidance issued by the secretary of the
     9  United States department of health and  human  services,  or  an  infant
    10  younger  than  [one  year]  three years of age who meets the presumptive
    11  eligibility requirements of subdivision four of  section  three  hundred
    12  sixty-four-i of this title.
    13    (3)  A child who is at least [one year] three years of age but younger
    14  than nineteen years of age is eligible for standard coverage if  his  or
    15  her  MAGI  household  income  does not exceed the MAGI-equivalent of one
    16  hundred thirty-three percent of the federal poverty line for the  appli-
    17  cable family size, which shall be calculated in accordance with guidance
    18  issued  by  the  Secretary of the United States department of health and
    19  human services, or a child who is at least [one year] three years of age
    20  but younger than nineteen years of age who meets the presumptive  eligi-
    21  bility  requirements of subdivision four of section three hundred sixty-
    22  four-i of this title.
    23    § 2. Subparagraphs 2 and 4  of  paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision  4  of
    24  section  366 of the social services law, as added by section 2 of part D
    25  of chapter 56 of the laws of 2013, are amended to read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 7180                             2

     1    (2) A child born to a woman eligible for and receiving medical assist-
     2  ance on the date of the child's birth shall be deemed  to  have  applied
     3  for  medical assistance and to have been found eligible for such assist-
     4  ance on the date of such birth and to remain eligible for  such  assist-
     5  ance  for  a period of [one year] three years, so long as the child is a
     6  member of the woman's household and the woman remains eligible for  such
     7  assistance  or  would  remain  eligible  for such assistance if she were
     8  pregnant.
     9    (4) An infant eligible under subparagraph two or four of paragraph (b)
    10  of subdivision one of this section who is receiving medically  necessary
    11  in-patient services for which medical assistance is provided on the date
    12  the  child  attains  [one  year]  three  years  of age, and who, but for
    13  attaining such age, would remain eligible for medical  assistance  under
    14  such  subparagraph,  shall  continue to remain eligible until the end of
    15  the stay for which in-patient services are being furnished.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    17  it shall have become a law.  Effective immediately, the commissioner  of
    18  health  shall  make regulations and take actions reasonably necessary to
    19  implement this act on that date, including taking  all  steps  necessary
    20  and  using  best efforts   to   secure  federal financial  participation
    21  for  eligible beneficiaries under title XIX of the social security  act,
    22  for  the  purposes of   this   act,  including  the prompt submission of
    23  appropriate amendments to the medical assistance state plan.