Bill Text: NY S00262 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Imposes a one year residency requirement for eligibility for medical assistance; authorizes the commissioner of health to promulgate any and all rules and regulations and take any other measures necessary to implement this act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES [S00262 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00262-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           262
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to imposing  a  one
          year residency requirement for eligibility for medical assistance
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 117 of the social services law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of the foregoing  subdi-
     4  visions  of this section or any other provision of law, for the purposes
     5  of eligibility for medical assistance pursuant to title eleven of  arti-
     6  cle  five of this chapter or any successor provisions thereof, no person
     7  shall be eligible therefor unless such person shall have been a resident
     8  of this state for one year or more.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    10  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately  the  commissioner  of
    11  health is authorized to promulgate any and all rules and regulations and
    12  take any other measures necessary to implement this act on its effective
    13  date on or before such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02269-01-9