Senate Bill S262

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Imposes a one year residency requirement for eligibility for medical assistance

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Social Services Committee

  • 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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2019-S262 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5212
Current Committee:
Senate Social Services
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §117, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S3363
2013-2014: S550, A5901
2015-2016: S3652, A3663
2017-2018: S679, A4834
2021-2022: S3488
2023-2024: S782

2019-S262 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Imposes a one year residency requirement for eligibility for medical assistance; authorizes the commissioner of health to promulgate any and all rules and regulations and take any other measures necessary to implement this act.

2019-S262 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S262 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    262
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to imposing  a  one
   year residency requirement for eligibility for medical assistance

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 117 of the social services law is amended by adding
 a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY INCONSISTENT PROVISION OF THE FOREGOING  SUBDI-
 VISIONS  OF THIS SECTION OR ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, FOR THE PURPOSES
 OF ELIGIBILITY FOR MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PURSUANT TO TITLE ELEVEN OF  ARTI-
 CLE  FIVE OF THIS CHAPTER OR ANY SUCCESSOR PROVISIONS THEREOF, NO PERSON
 SHALL BE ELIGIBLE THEREFOR UNLESS SUCH PERSON SHALL HAVE BEEN A RESIDENT
 OF THIS STATE FOR ONE YEAR OR MORE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately  the  commissioner  of
 health is authorized to promulgate any and all rules and regulations and
 take any other measures necessary to implement this act on its effective
 date on or before such date.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02269-01-9

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