Bill Text: NY S00345 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the commissioner of health to adopt policies to exclude certain non-recurring items from income that would artificially inflate the availability of funds to meet current needs relating to eligibility for the program for elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO AGING [S00345 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S00345-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          345
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  DIAZ  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Aging
       AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to policies excluding certain
         non-recurring items from income for purposes of the program for elder-
         ly pharmaceutical insurance coverage
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 241 of the elder law is amended to
    2  read as follows:
    3    3. "Income" shall mean "household gross income" as defined in the real
    4  property  tax  circuit  breaker credit program, pursuant to subparagraph
    5  [(C)] (C) of paragraph one of subsection (e) of section six hundred  six
    6  of  the tax law, but only shall include the income of program applicants
    7  and spouses and shall exclude the income of other members of the  house-
    8  hold; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH MAY ADOPT POLI-
    9  CIES  TO  EXCLUDE FROM INCOME CERTAIN NON-RECURRING ITEMS THAT WOULD ACT
   10  TO ARTIFICIALLY INFLATE THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS TO MEET CURRENT  NEEDS
   11  INCLUDING,  BUT  NOT  LIMITED TO, A RETIREE'S PREVIOUS YEAR'S WAGES, AND
   12  NON-RECURRING DISTRIBUTIONS FROM AN INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT.
   13    S 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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