Bill Text: NY A09594 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Ensures that temporary protected status beneficiaries continue to receive Medicaid benefits if the federal government ends the program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 33-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-30 - enacting clause stricken [A09594 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9594
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 25, 2018
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. SEPULVEDA, SOLAGES, CRESPO, JEAN-PIERRE, VANEL,
          RAMOS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  ARROYO,  DAVILA,  DE LA ROSA,
          DILAN,  ORTIZ,  PICHARDO,  RIVERA,  RODRIGUEZ,  ROZIC -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation  to  ensuring  that
          temporary  protected status beneficiaries continue to receive Medicaid
          benefits
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
     2  364-k to read as follows:
     3    § 364-k. Temporary protected status beneficiary's benefits.   Notwith-
     4  standing  any  other  provision of law, the department shall not cancel,
     5  suspend or rescind Medicaid benefits issued  to  a  temporary  protected
     6  status  beneficiary  if  and/or when the program is ended by the federal
     7  government.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13987-01-7