Directs the commissioner of health, in consultation with the commissioner of labor, to establish procedures to provide information on the child health insurance plan to a person filing for unemployment insurance.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3305
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 26, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. EDDINGTON, NOLAN, JOHN, COLTON -- Multi-Sponsored
by -- M. of A. WEINSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to authorizing the
commissioner of health to establish procedures providing information
on the child health insurance plan to applicants filing for unemploy-
ment insurance
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 2511 of the public health law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 21 to read as follows:
3 21. The commissioner shall, in consultation with the commissioner of
4 labor, establish procedures whereby each person who files a claim for
5 unemployment insurance pursuant to section five hundred ninety-six of
6 the labor law shall receive an informational leaflet regarding the
7 existence of the child health insurance plan and information regarding
8 eligibility for benefits under this title.
9 § 2. The expense of such informational leaflet shall be a proper
10 charge against funds available to the department of health for the
11 marketing of the child health insurance plan.
12 § 3. 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.
LBD04577-01-9
