Assembly Bill A9283

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Grants medical assistance eligibility for kidney transplant expenses for aliens

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A9283 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6056
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง365-a, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A6193, S333
2019-2020: A7545, S5722
2021-2022: S2545
2023-2024: S3577

2015-A9283 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Grants medical assistance eligibility for kidney transplant expenses for aliens.

2015-A9283 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  9283

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 11, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. MOYA -- read once and referred 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 aliens

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Section  365-a  of  the social services law is amended by
adding a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
  10. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE-K
OR ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS ARTICLE, MEDICAL  ASSISTANCE  SHALL  ALSO
INCLUDE PAYMENT FOR SURGERY, MEDICAL CARE AND PRESCRIPTION DRUGS RELATED
TO  KIDNEY  TRANSPLANTATION  FOR ALIENS WITH END-STAGE RENAL DISEASE WHO
ARE OTHERWISE ELIGIBLE FOR BENEFITS PURSUANT TO THIS TITLE.    AN  ALIEN
SHALL  ONLY  BE DEEMED TO BE ELIGIBLE PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION IF HE
OR SHE HAS UNDERGONE EMERGENCY RENAL DIALYSIS FOR A PERIOD OF  NOT  LESS
THAN  TWO  CONSECUTIVE  YEARS  WITHIN  NEW YORK STATE, AS PROVEN BY SUCH
MEANS AS SHALL BE DESIGNATED IN THE REGULATIONS OF THE  COMMISSIONER  OF
HEALTH.
  S  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the first day of January next
succeeding the date on which it  shall  have  become  a  law;  provided,
however,  that  effective  immediately,  the  addition, amendment and/or
repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
this act on its effective date is authorized and directed to be made and
completed on or before such effective date.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11989-03-6


              

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