Bill Text: NY A01605 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Facilitates enrollment in the child health insurance plan; directs the commissioner of education, in consultation with the commissioner of health, to develop a form with information regarding the existence of the child health insurance plan; further directs the commissioner of education to promulgate rules and regulations to require all public schools and school districts to disseminate such materials to families of students.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to education [A01605 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A01605-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1605
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 12, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI, JAFFEE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
         A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
       AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to facilitating enroll-
         ment in the child health insurance plan
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 922 to
    2  read as follows:
    3    S  922.  INFORMATION  PERTAINING  TO CHIPS. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL, IN
    4  CONSULTATION WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH, DEVELOP A FORM WITH INFOR-
    5  MATION REGARDING THE EXISTENCE OF THE CHILD HEALTH  INSURANCE  PLAN  AND
    6  INFORMATION  REGARDING  ELIGIBILITY  FOR  BENEFITS  UNDER TITLE ONE-A OF
    7  ARTICLE TWENTY-FIVE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH  LAW.  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL
    8  PROMULGATE  RULES  AND  REGULATIONS  TO  REQUIRE  ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND
    9  SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE STATE TO DISSEMINATE SUCH INFORMATIONAL  MATERI-
   10  ALS  TO  THE  FAMILIES OF ALL ENROLLED STUDENTS AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH
   11  SCHOOL YEAR.
   12    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   13  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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