Bill Text: NY A03145 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that an individual shall not become ineligible under the EPIC program due to an increase in social security benefits or a public or private pension where such increase does not exceed the consumer price index.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 36-5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-09 - print number 3145c [A03145 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03145-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3145--C

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 28, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. CARROLL, BENEDETTO, ABBATE, COLTON, GOTTFRIED,
          JAFFEE, PEOPLES-STOKES, RIVERA, L. ROSENTHAL,  GUNTHER,  M. G. MILLER,
          ORTIZ,  SANTABARBARA,  STIRPE,  BARRETT,  ENGLEBRIGHT,  MOSLEY, BLAKE,
          DICKENS, SAYEGH, BUTTENSCHON, FRONTUS,  ARROYO,  D'URSO,  CRUZ,  FALL,
          DINOWITZ, FINCH, CROUCH, MONTESANO, BARRON, GRIFFIN -- Multi-Sponsored
          by  --  M.  of  A. COOK, CUSICK, DenDEKKER, GLICK, MALLIOTAKIS, PERRY,
          SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Aging -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee -- again reported from said  committee  with  amend-
          ments,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
          -- recommitted to the Committee on Aging in accordance  with  Assembly
          Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the elder law, in  relation  to  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. Subdivision 3 of section 242 of the elder law is amended by
     2  adding a new paragraph (i) to read as follows:
     3    (i) An individual who is determined  to  be  eligible  for  assistance
     4  under  this article shall not become ineligible based upon income solely
     5  because of an increase in either a  public  or  private  pension  or  an
     6  increase in social security benefits as provided under federal law where
     7  such increase does not exceed the consumer price index (all items United
     8  States city average) for such year.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2021.


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