Assembly Bill A6193

2017-2018 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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2017-A6193 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S333
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §365-a, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A9283, S6056
2019-2020: A7545, S5722
2021-2022: S2545
2023-2024: S3577

2017-A6193 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Grants medical assistance eligibility for kidney transplant expenses for aliens.

2017-A6193 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6193
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 27, 2017
                                ___________
 
 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.
   §  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.
                                                            LBD00149-01-7

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