Imposes a ninety day residency requirement for eligibility for medical assistance; authorizes the commissioner of health to promulgate any and all rules and regulations and take any other measures necessary to implement this act.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6357
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 20, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. SCHIMMINGER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
GIGLIO, HOOPER, MAGEE -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to imposing a nine-
ty day residency requirement for 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. Section 117 of the social services law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
3 4. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of the foregoing subdi-
4 visions of this section or any other provision of law, for the purposes
5 of eligibility for medical assistance pursuant to title eleven of arti-
6 cle five of this chapter or any successor provisions thereof, no person
7 shall be eligible therefor unless such person shall have been ninety
8 days or more a resident of this state.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
10 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately the commissioner of
11 health is authorized to promulgate any and all rules and regulations and
12 take any other measures necessary to implement this act on its effective
13 date on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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