STATE OF NEW YORK
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8487
IN SENATE
February 5, 2024
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Introduced by Sen. HELMING -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to eligibility for
medical assistance
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 4 of section 366 of the social
2 services law is amended by adding new subparagraph 4 to read as follows:
3 (4) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the period of July
4 two thousand twenty-three through July two thousand twenty-four, each
5 child eligible for medical assistance in the month immediately preceding
6 the month in which such child became ineligible for such assistance,
7 shall remain eligible for medical assistance for an additional six
8 calendar months beginning with the month ineligibility for such assist-
9 ance begins.
10 § 2. Section 366 of the social services law is amended by adding a new
11 subdivision 17 to read as follows:
12 17. For the period of July two thousand twenty-three through July two
13 thousand twenty-four, a child born to a woman eligible for medical
14 assistance on the date of the child's birth and a child under the age of
15 nineteen who is determined eligible for medical assistance under the
16 provisions of this section shall be granted continued eligibility pend-
17 ing a redetermination of eligibility, to begin no earlier than July two
18 thousand twenty-four.
19 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13994-03-4
