Bill Text: NY S08487 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to eligibility of families to receive medical assistance.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-05 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S08487 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08487-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8487

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 5, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HELMING -- 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 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. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 4 of section 366 of the social
     2  services law is amended by adding new subparagraph 4 to read as follows:
     3    (4) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the period of July
     4  two thousand twenty-three through July two  thousand  twenty-four,  each
     5  child eligible for medical assistance in the month immediately preceding
     6  the  month  in  which  such child became ineligible for such assistance,
     7  shall remain eligible for  medical  assistance  for  an  additional  six
     8  calendar  months beginning with the month ineligibility for such assist-
     9  ance begins.
    10    § 2. Section 366 of the social services law is amended by adding a new
    11  subdivision 17 to read as follows:
    12    17. For the period of July two thousand twenty-three through July  two
    13  thousand  twenty-four,  a  child  born  to  a woman eligible for medical
    14  assistance on the date of the child's birth and a child under the age of
    15  nineteen who is determined eligible for  medical  assistance  under  the
    16  provisions  of this section shall be granted continued eligibility pend-
    17  ing a redetermination of eligibility, to begin no earlier than July  two
    18  thousand twenty-four.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13994-03-4