Bill Text: NY A00630 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Limits the calculation of increases in income limiting eligibility under the program for elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage to one subsequent calendar year.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-03-03 - signed chap.21 [A00630 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00630-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           630

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 10, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Aging

        AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to increases in income limit-
          ing eligibility under the program for elderly pharmaceutical insurance
          coverage

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Paragraph (i) of subdivision 3 of section 242 of the elder
     2  law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending  the  elder  law
     3  relating  to  eligibility  under  the program for elderly pharmaceutical
     4  insurance coverage, as proposed in legislative bills numbers  S.  3483-A
     5  and A. 928-A, is amended to read as follows:
     6    (i)  An  individual  who  is  determined to be eligible for assistance
     7  under this article shall not become ineligible based upon income  solely
     8  because  of  an  increase  in  either  a public or private pension or an
     9  increase in social security benefits as provided under federal law where
    10  such increase does not exceed the consumer price index (all items United
    11  States city average) for such year. This provision shall be  limited  to
    12  one subsequent calendar year.
    13    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    14  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the elder law  relating
    15  to  eligibility  under  the program for elderly pharmaceutical insurance
    16  coverage, as proposed in legislative bills  numbers  S.  3483-A  and  A.
    17  928-A, takes effect.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04219-01-3