Bill Text: NY S03577 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Grants medical assistance eligibility for kidney transplant expenses for residents of New York with end-stage renal disease who are otherwise eligible for benefits except for their immigration status.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-17 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S03577 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03577-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3577

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 1, 2023
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        Introduced by Sens. RIVERA, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to authorizing the
          payment of medical assistance for the provision of kidney  transplants
          for certain residents of New York

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

     1    Section 1. Section 365-a of the social  services  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
     3    11. Notwithstanding the provisions of section one hundred thirty-one-k
     4  or  any  other  provision of this article, medical assistance shall also
     5  include payment for surgery, medical care and prescription drugs related
     6  to kidney transplantation for residents of New York with end-stage renal
     7  disease who are otherwise eligible for benefits pursuant to  this  title
     8  except  for their immigration status.  A resident of New York shall only
     9  be deemed to be eligible pursuant to this subdivision if he or  she  has
    10  undergone  emergency  renal  dialysis  for a period of not less than two
    11  consecutive years within New York state, as  proven  by  such  means  as
    12  shall be designated in the regulations of the commissioner of health.
    13    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the first day of January next
    14  succeeding the date on which it shall have  become  a  law.    Effective
    15  immediately,  the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regu-
    16  lation necessary for the implementation of this  act  on  its  effective
    17  date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective
    18  date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08082-02-3