Senate Bill S4865

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to premium payments for the child health insurance plan

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health 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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2023-S4865 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2510, Pub Health L

2023-S4865 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that no eligible children who are less than four years old without regard to family income do not have to pay a premium payment.

2023-S4865 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S4865 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4865
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 16, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  premium  payments
   for the child health insurance plan
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph e of subdivision 9 of section
 2510 of the public health law, as added by section  2  of  part  DDD  of
 chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   (i) no payments are required for eligible children whose family house-
 hold  income  is  less than two hundred twenty-three percent of the non-
 farm federal poverty level and for eligible children  who  are  American
 Indians  or  Alaskan Natives, as defined by the United States department
 of health and human services, whose family household income is less than
 two hundred fifty-one percent of the non-farm federal poverty level  AND
 NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY INCONSISTENT PROVISIONS IN THIS ARTICLE, FOR ELIGI-
 BLE CHILDREN WHO ARE LESS THAN FOUR YEARS OLD WITHOUT REGARD  TO  FAMILY
 HOUSEHOLD INCOME; and
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall only apply to
 policies modified, entered into or renewed after such date.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09482-01-3



              

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