S00345 Summary:
BILL NO | S00345 |
  | |
SAME AS | SAME AS A00349 |
  | |
SPONSOR | DIAZ |
  | |
COSPNSR | AVELLA, LATIMER |
  | |
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. |
S00345 Actions:
BILL NO | S00345 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/09/2013 | REFERRED TO AGING | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/04/2013 | REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/08/2014 | REFERRED TO AGING |
S00345 Floor Votes:
There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
Go to topS00345 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 345 2013-2014 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 9, 2013 ___________ Introduced by Sen. DIAZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Aging 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. LBD00451-01-3