Bill Text: NY A10476 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to medical assistance to certain disabled individuals.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-06-01 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [A10476 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10476-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10476

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 27, 2022
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        Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. McMahon) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to medical  assist-
          ance to certain disabled individuals

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph 5 of paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section
     2  366 of the social services law, as added by section 1 of part D of chap-
     3  ter 56 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (5) A disabled individual at least sixteen years of age, but under the
     5  age of sixty-five, who: would be eligible for benefits under the supple-
     6  mental security income program but for earnings in excess of the  allow-
     7  able  limit;  has  net available income that does not exceed two hundred
     8  fifty percent of the applicable federal income official poverty line, as
     9  defined and updated by the United States department of health and  human
    10  services,  for  a  one-person or two-person household, as defined by the
    11  commissioner in regulation; has household resources, as defined in para-
    12  graph (e) of subdivision two of section  three  hundred  sixty-six-c  of
    13  this  title,  other than retirement accounts, that do not exceed [twenty
    14  thousand dollars for a one-person household or thirty  thousand  dollars
    15  for  a  two-person  household,  as  defined by the commissioner in regu-
    16  lation] one hundred fifty percent of the income amount  permitted  under
    17  subparagraph  seven of paragraph (a) of subdivision two of this section,
    18  for a one-person or two-person household, as defined by the commissioner
    19  in regulation;  and  contributes  to  the  cost  of  medical  assistance
    20  provided  pursuant  to  this subparagraph in accordance with subdivision
    21  twelve of  section  three  hundred  sixty-seven-a  of  this  title;  for
    22  purposes  of this subparagraph, disabled means having a medically deter-
    23  minable impairment of sufficient severity and duration  to  qualify  for
    24  benefits  under  section  1902(a)(10)(A)(ii)(xv)  of the social security
    25  act.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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