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A06049 Summary:

BILL NOA06049
 
SAME ASSAME AS S02391
 
SPONSORMcMahon
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §366, Soc Serv L
 
Modifies income limits for medical assistance to certain disabled individuals.
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A06049 Actions:

BILL NOA06049
 
03/31/2023referred to ways and means
06/08/2023reported referred to rules
06/08/2023reported
06/08/2023rules report cal.712
06/08/2023substituted by s2391
 S02391 AMEND= RIVERA
 01/20/2023REFERRED TO HEALTH
 02/14/20231ST REPORT CAL.382
 02/15/20232ND REPORT CAL.
 02/27/2023ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
 03/29/2023PASSED SENATE
 03/29/2023DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
 03/30/2023referred to health
 06/08/2023substituted for a6049
 06/08/2023ordered to third reading rules cal.712
 06/08/2023passed assembly
 06/08/2023returned to senate
 10/13/2023DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR
 10/25/2023SIGNED CHAP.583
 01/20/2023REFERRED TO HEALTH
 02/14/20231ST REPORT CAL.382
 02/15/20232ND REPORT CAL.
 02/27/2023ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
 03/29/2023PASSED SENATE
 03/29/2023DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
 03/30/2023referred to health
 06/08/2023substituted for a6049
 06/08/2023ordered to third reading rules cal.712
 06/08/2023passed assembly
 06/08/2023returned to senate
 10/13/2023DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR
 10/25/2023SIGNED CHAP.583
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A06049 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A6049
 
SPONSOR: McMahon
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the social services law, in relation to medical assist- ance to certain disabled individuals   PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: The purpose of this bill is to allow a disabled individual from. age 16 to 65 to have additional resources and still qualify for Medicaid.   SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 amends subparagraph 5 of paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 366 of the social services law, as added by section 1 of part 0 of chapter 56 of the laws of 2013, to adjust the Medicaid asset test for Working People with Disabilities to 150% of income threshold level used to determine Medicaid eligibility; this would be 207% of the federal poverty level. Section 2 establishes an effective date.   DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORIGINAL AND AMENDED VERSION (IF APPLICABLE): Click here to enter text.   JUSTIFICATION: In the SFY 22-23 budget, the medically needy income level was increased to 138% of the federal poverty level. This change impacted the Aged, Blind, and Disabled (ABD) who are covered in the Non-MAGI Medicaid popu- lation. However, the resource limit for Working People with Disabilities (WPD) was, unintentionally, not changed to align the medically needy resource level increase. The current WPD resource level is set at $20,000 for an individual and $30,000 for families with a household of two. This bill would effectively raise that limit to 207% of the federal poverty level, which would be approximately $28,000 for an individual and $38,000 for a family of two. This bill would align the resource limit for the WPD population to the same level as the resource limit for the ABD population to fix a techni- cal issue and ensure that the Working People with Disabilities group receives a similar increase in the medically needy resource level as was done in the FY23 budget.   PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 2022: S9442 (Rivera) - Referred to Health 2022: A10476 (McMahon) - Passed Assembly   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS: None.   EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect immediately.
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A06049 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          6049
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     March 31, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. McMAHON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Ways and Means
 
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to medical  assist-
          ance to certain disabled individuals
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph 5 of paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section
     2  366 of the social services law, as added by section 1 of part D of chap-
     3  ter 56 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (5) A disabled individual at least sixteen years of age, but under the
     5  age of sixty-five, who: would be eligible for benefits under the supple-
     6  mental security income program but for earnings in excess of the  allow-
     7  able  limit;  has  net available income that does not exceed two hundred
     8  fifty percent of the applicable federal income official poverty line, as
     9  defined and updated by the United States department of health and  human
    10  services,  for  a  one-person or two-person household, as defined by the
    11  commissioner in regulation; has household resources, as defined in para-
    12  graph (e) of subdivision two of section  three  hundred  sixty-six-c  of
    13  this  title,  other than retirement accounts, that do not exceed [twenty
    14  thousand dollars for a one-person household or thirty  thousand  dollars
    15  for  a  two-person  household,  as  defined by the commissioner in regu-
    16  lation] one hundred fifty percent of the income amount  permitted  under
    17  subparagraph  seven of paragraph (a) of subdivision two of this section,
    18  for a one-person or two-person household, as defined by the commissioner
    19  in regulation;  and  contributes  to  the  cost  of  medical  assistance
    20  provided  pursuant  to  this subparagraph in accordance with subdivision
    21  twelve of  section  three  hundred  sixty-seven-a  of  this  title;  for
    22  purposes  of this subparagraph, disabled means having a medically deter-
    23  minable impairment of sufficient severity and duration  to  qualify  for
    24  benefits  under  section  1902(a)(10)(A)(ii)(xv)  of the social security
    25  act.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02416-01-3
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