Bill Text: NY S05249 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to automatic Medicaid eligibility for striking workers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-20 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S05249 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S05249-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5249

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 20, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. SALAZAR, BRISPORT, CLEARE, GONZALEZ, JACKSON, LIU,
          MAY, MAYER, SEPULVEDA, WEBB -- 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 Medicaid eligi-
          bility for striking workers

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

     1    Section  1. Subdivision 4 of section 366 of the social services law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows:
     3    (f) Employees on strike.
     4    (1) Notwithstanding any  other  provision  of  law  to  the  contrary,
     5  persons  who  are not eligible for medical assistance coverage during an
     6  employment strike or other  industrial  controversy  pursuant  to  title
     7  seven  of  article  eighteen  of  the labor law are eligible for medical
     8  assistance coverage during such employment strike  or  other  industrial
     9  controversy, subject to the provisions of this paragraph.
    10    (2) Medical assistance provided to a person under this paragraph shall
    11  be  limited  to the period in which such person requires coverage during
    12  an employment strike or industrial controversy.
    13    (3) (i) The commissioner of health shall promulgate  such  regulations
    14  as  may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this paragraph. Such
    15  regulations shall include, but not be limited to:  eligibility  require-
    16  ments;  a  description  of the medical services which are covered; and a
    17  process for providing presumptive eligibility when a  qualified  entity,
    18  as  defined  by the commissioner, determines on the basis of preliminary
    19  information that a person meets the requirements for  eligibility  under
    20  this paragraph.
    21    (ii)  For  purposes  of determining eligibility for medical assistance
    22  under this paragraph, resources available to such individual  shall  not
    23  be  considered  nor required to be applied toward the payment or partial

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07029-01-5
        S. 5249                             2

     1  payment of the cost of medical care,  services  and  supplies  available
     2  under this paragraph.
     3    (iii)  An individual shall be eligible for presumptive eligibility for
     4  medical assistance under this paragraph in accordance  with  subdivision
     5  five of section three hundred sixty-four-i of this title.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.