Bill Text: NY S04578 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes individuals to participate in the NY State of Health marketplace without providing information regarding citizenship or lawful residency or requesting or receiving a state or federal subsidy.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S04578 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4578
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 15, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SALAZAR -- 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 authorizing  indi-
          viduals  to  participate  in the state health benefit exchange without
          providing information regarding citizenship or lawful residency in the
          United States and regardless of eligibility for a federal subsidy
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 31 to read as follows:
     3    31.  The  commissioner  shall require, in consultation and cooperation
     4  with the superintendent of  financial  services,  that  the  eligibility
     5  requirements  for  health care coverage through the state health benefit
     6  exchange established pursuant to  the  federal  Patient  Protection  and
     7  Affordable  Care  Act  (P.L.  111-148), as amended by the federal Health
     8  Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (P.L. 111-152), shall  not
     9  include  requirements that individuals provide any information regarding
    10  citizenship or lawful residency in the United States.  Such  eligibility
    11  requirements  shall  also  authorize  individuals  to participate in the
    12  state health benefit exchange regardless of an individual's  eligibility
    13  or need for a federal subsidy.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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