Bill Text: NY S01304 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Increases the income limits on the elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage program to $37,500 for single and $65,000 for married couples.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-21 - PRINT NUMBER 1304A [S01304 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S01304-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1304--A
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
(PREFILED)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Aging -- recommitted to
the Committee on Aging in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to increasing the income
levels for eligible participants in the elderly pharmaceutical insur-
ance coverage program (EPIC)
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 242 of the elder law,
2 subdivision 1 as amended by section 4 and subdivision 2 as added by
3 section 5 of part T of chapter 56 of the laws of 2012, are amended to
4 read as follows:
5 1. Persons eligible for comprehensive coverage under section two
6 hundred forty-seven of this title shall include:
7 (a) any unmarried resident who is at least sixty-five years of age and
8 whose income for the calendar year immediately preceding the effective
9 date of the annual coverage period beginning on or after January first,
10 two thousand [five] FIFTEEN, is less than or equal to [twenty]
11 THIRTY-SEVEN thousand FIVE HUNDRED dollars. After the initial determi-
12 nation of eligibility, each eligible individual must be redetermined
13 eligible at least every twenty-four months; and
14 (b) any married resident who is at least sixty-five years of age and
15 whose income for the calendar year immediately preceding the effective
16 date of the annual coverage period when combined with the income in the
17 same calendar year of such married person's spouse beginning on or after
18 January first, two thousand [one] FIFTEEN, is less than or equal to
19 [twenty-six] SIXTY-FIVE thousand dollars. After the initial determi-
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 nation of eligibility, each eligible individual must be redetermined
2 eligible at least every twenty-four months.
3 2. Persons eligible for catastrophic coverage under section two
4 hundred forty-eight of this title shall include:
5 (a) any unmarried resident who is at least sixty-five years of age and
6 whose income for the calendar year immediately preceding the effective
7 date of the annual coverage period beginning on or after January first,
8 two thousand [one] FIFTEEN, is more than twenty thousand and less than
9 or equal to [thirty-five] THIRTY-SEVEN thousand FIVE HUNDRED dollars.
10 After the initial determination of eligibility, each eligible individual
11 must be redetermined eligible at least every twenty-four months; and
12 (b) any married resident who is at least sixty-five years of age and
13 whose income for the calendar year immediately preceding the effective
14 date of the annual coverage period when combined with the income in the
15 same calendar year of such married person's spouse beginning on or after
16 January first, two thousand [one] FIFTEEN, is more than twenty-six thou-
17 sand dollars and less than or equal to [fifty] SIXTY-FIVE thousand
18 dollars. After the initial determination of eligibility, each eligible
19 individual must be redetermined eligible at least every twenty-four
20 months.
21 S 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2015.
