Assembly Bill A1841

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Requires notice of potential liability to be given to applicants for medical assistance or family health care plus

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A1841 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S443
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §369, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A5900, S3103
2011-2012: A9987, S294
2015-2016: S263
2017-2018: S4917

2013-A1841 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires notice of potential liability for reimbursement of benefits paid to be given to applicants for medical assistance or family health care plus.

2013-A1841 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1841

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. GIBSON -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Social Services

AN  ACT  to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring that
  notice of potential liability  be  given  to  applicants  for  medical
  assistance or the family health plus program

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 369 of the social services law is amended by adding
a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
  8.  (A) NO RECOVERY ACTION PURSUANT  TO  THIS  SECTION,  SECTIONS  ONE
HUNDRED  ONE,  ONE HUNDRED FOUR AND ONE HUNDRED FOUR-B, PARAGRAPH (A) OF
SUBDIVISION THREE OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-SIX,  SUBPARAGRAPH  ONE
OF PARAGRAPH (H) OF SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-SIX,
AND PARAGRAPH (B) OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-SEV-
EN-A  OF  THIS  CHAPTER  SHALL  BE  MADE  UNLESS  THE APPLICANT HAS BEEN
INFORMED, IN WRITING, THAT HE OR SHE MAY  BE  LIABLE  TO  REIMBURSE  THE
STATE  OR  THE  LOCAL DEPARTMENT FOR SUCH MEDICAL ASSISTANCE RECEIVED OR
FOR BENEFITS RECEIVED PURSUANT THERETO.
  (B) THE WRITTEN NOTICE SHALL DETAIL, IN PLAIN LANGUAGE, THE CONDITIONS
UNDER WHICH THE LOCAL DEPARTMENT OR LOCAL SOCIAL SERVICES  DISTRICT  MAY
IMPOSE  ANY  LIEN  ON  THE PERSONAL PROPERTY OR ESTATE OF A RECIPIENT OF
MEDICAL ASSISTANCE.
  (C) THE COMMISSIONER MAY PROVIDE SUCH NOTICE AS PART OF  THE  APPLICA-
TION FOR MEDICAL ASSISTANCE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it  shall  have  become a law; provided, that, effective immediately any
rules, regulations and forms necessary to implement  the  provisions  of
this  act  are authorized and directed to be completed on or before such
date.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00613-01-3

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