STATE OF NEW YORK
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4865
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 16, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to premium payments
for 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. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph e of subdivision 9 of section
2 2510 of the public health law, as added by section 2 of part DDD of
3 chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
4 (i) no payments are required for eligible children whose family house-
5 hold income is less than two hundred twenty-three percent of the non-
6 farm federal poverty level and for eligible children who are American
7 Indians or Alaskan Natives, as defined by the United States department
8 of health and human services, whose family household income is less than
9 two hundred fifty-one percent of the non-farm federal poverty level and
10 notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions in this article, for eligi-
11 ble children who are less than four years old without regard to family
12 household income; and
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall only apply to
14 policies modified, entered into or renewed after such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09482-01-3
