Facilitates enrollment in the child health insurance plan; directs the commissioner of education, in consultation with the commissioner of health, to develop a form with information regarding the existence of the child health insurance plan; further directs the commissioner of education to promulgate rules and regulations to require all public schools and school districts to disseminate such materials to families of students.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1605
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 12, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI, JAFFEE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to facilitating enroll-
ment in the child health insurance plan
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 922 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 922. Information pertaining to CHIPS. The commissioner shall, in
4 consultation with the commissioner of health, develop a form with infor-
5 mation regarding the existence of the child health insurance plan and
6 information regarding eligibility for benefits under title one-A of
7 article twenty-five of the public health law. The commissioner shall
8 promulgate rules and regulations to require all public schools and
9 school districts in the state to disseminate such informational materi-
10 als to the families of all enrolled students at the beginning of each
11 school year.
12 § 2. 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.
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