Bill Text: NY A07545 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Grants medical assistance eligibility for kidney transplant expenses for aliens.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to health [A07545 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07545-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7545--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 9, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        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 undocumented immigrants

          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 10 to read as follows:
     3    10. 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  undocumented  immigrants  with  end-stage
     7  renal  disease  who are otherwise eligible for benefits pursuant to this
     8  title.  An undocumented immigrant shall only be deemed  to  be  eligible
     9  pursuant  to this subdivision if he or she has undergone emergency renal
    10  dialysis for a period of not less than two consecutive years within  New
    11  York  state, as proven by such means as shall be designated in the regu-
    12  lations 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.
                                                                   LBD11485-02-9