A00243 Summary:

BILL NOA00243A
 
SAME ASSAME AS S00122-A
 
SPONSORDinowitz
 
COSPNSRRivera J
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd S241, Eld L
 
Authorizes the commissioner of health to adopt policies to exclude certain non-recurring items from income that would artificially inflate the availability of funds to meet current needs relating to eligibility for the program for elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage.
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A00243 Actions:

BILL NOA00243A
 
01/05/2011referred to aging
01/25/2011reported referred to ways and means
01/04/2012referred to aging
01/27/2012amend and recommit to aging
01/27/2012print number 243a
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A00243 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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A00243 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         243--A
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 5, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. DINOWITZ, J. RIVERA -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Aging -- 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  commit-
          tee
 

        AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to policies excluding certain
          non-recurring items from income for purposes of the program for elder-
          ly 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 241 of the elder law is amended to
     2  read as follows:
     3    3. "Income" shall mean "household gross income" as defined in the real
     4  property tax circuit breaker credit program,  pursuant  to  subparagraph
     5  [(C)]  (c) of paragraph one of subsection (e) of section six hundred six
     6  of the tax law, but only shall include the income of program  applicants
     7  and  spouses and shall exclude the income of other members of the house-
     8  hold; provided, however, that the commissioner of health may adopt poli-

     9  cies to exclude from income certain non-recurring items that  would  act
    10  to  artificially inflate the availability of funds to meet current needs
    11  including, but not limited to, a retiree's previous  year's  wages,  and
    12  non-recurring distributions from an individual retirement account.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03235-02-2
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