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                                   4779
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 28, 2017
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 Introduced  by Sens. HANNON, ORTT -- 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 the  eligibility
   of  disabled  persons  who are applicants for or recipients of medical
   assistance

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Clause (iii) of subparagraph 2 of paragraph (b) of subdivi-
 sion  2  of  section 366 of the social services law, as added by chapter
 170 of the laws of 1994, subclause (B) as amended by chapter 656 of  the
 laws of 1997, is amended to read as follows:
   (iii)  Notwithstanding  the provisions of clauses (i) and (ii) of this
 subparagraph, in the case of an applicant or recipient who is  disabled,
 as  such  term  is  defined  in section 1614(a)(3) of the federal social
 security act, the department must not consider as  available  income  or
 resources the corpus or income of the following trusts which comply with
 the  provisions  of  the  regulations  authorized by clause (iv) of this
 subparagraph: (A) a trust containing the assets of such a disabled indi-
 vidual which was established for the benefit of the disabled  individual
 while  such individual was under sixty-five years of age by THE INDIVID-
 UAL, a parent, grandparent, legal guardian, or court of competent juris-
 diction, if upon the death of such individual the state will receive all
 amounts remaining in the trust up to the  total  value  of  all  medical
 assistance paid on behalf of such individual; (B) and a trust containing
 the  assets  of  such a disabled individual established and managed by a
 non-profit association which maintains separate accounts for the benefit
 of disabled individuals, but, for purposes of investment and  management
 of  trust funds, pools the accounts, provided that accounts in the trust
 fund are established solely for the benefit of individuals who are disa-
 bled as such term is defined in section 1614(a)(3) of the federal social
 security act by such disabled individual, a parent,  grandparent,  legal
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 guardian,  or  court  of  competent jurisdiction, and to the extent that
 amounts remaining in the individual's account are not  retained  by  the
 trust  upon the death of the individual, the state will receive all such
 remaining  amounts  up to the total value of all medical assistance paid
 on behalf of such individual. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a
 not-for-profit corporation may, in furtherance of and as an  adjunct  to
 its corporate purposes, act as trustee of a trust for persons with disa-
 bilities  established  pursuant to this subclause, provided that a trust
 company, as defined in subdivision seven of section one hundred-c of the
 banking law, acts as co-trustee.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  apply  to  all
 trusts established on or after such effective date.