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                                   6136
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 23, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Aging
 
 AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to making certain persons who
   are  eligible  for  or  receiving social security disability insurance
   benefits eligible for elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivisions  1  and  2  of section 242 of the elder law,
 subdivision 1 as amended by section 4 of part T of  chapter  56  of  the
 laws  of  2012  and  subdivision 2 as amended by section 12 of part A of
 chapter 60 of the laws of 2014, are amended to read as follows:
   1. Persons eligible  for  comprehensive  coverage  under  section  two
 hundred forty-seven of this title shall include:
   (a) any unmarried resident who is at least sixty-five years of age, OR
 ELIGIBLE  FOR  OR  RECEIVING SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY INSURANCE (SSDI)
 BENEFITS, and whose income for the calendar year  immediately  preceding
 the  effective  date of the annual coverage period beginning on or after
 January first, two thousand five, is less than or equal to twenty  thou-
 sand  dollars.    After  the  initial determination of eligibility, each
 eligible individual must be redetermined eligible at least  every  twen-
 ty-four months; and
   (b)  any  married resident who is at least sixty-five years of age, OR
 ELIGIBLE FOR OR RECEIVING SOCIAL SECURITY  DISABILITY  INSURANCE  (SSDI)
 BENEFITS,  and  whose income for the calendar year immediately preceding
 the effective date of the annual coverage period when combined with  the
 income  in the same calendar year of such married person's spouse begin-
 ning on or after January first, two thousand one, is less than or  equal
 to  twenty-six  thousand  dollars.  After  the  initial determination of
 eligibility, each eligible individual must be redetermined  eligible  at
 least every twenty-four months.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   2.  Persons  eligible  for  catastrophic  coverage  under  section two
 hundred forty-eight of this title shall include:
   (a) any unmarried resident who is at least sixty-five years of age, OR
 ELIGIBLE  FOR  OR  RECEIVING SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY INSURANCE (SSDI)
 BENEFITS, and whose income for the calendar year  immediately  preceding
 the  effective  date of the annual coverage period beginning on or after
 January first, two thousand one, is more than twenty thousand  and  less
 than or equal to seventy-five thousand dollars. After the initial deter-
 mination  of  eligibility, each eligible individual must be redetermined
 eligible at least every twenty-four months; and
   (b) any married resident who is at least sixty-five years of  age,  OR
 ELIGIBLE  FOR  OR  RECEIVING SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY INSURANCE (SSDI)
 BENEFITS, and whose income for the calendar year  immediately  preceding
 the  effective date of the annual coverage period when combined with the
 income in the same calendar year of such married person's spouse  begin-
 ning  on  or after January first, two thousand one, is more than twenty-
 six thousand dollars and less than or  equal  to  one  hundred  thousand
 dollars.  After  the initial determination of eligibility, each eligible
 individual must be redetermined  eligible  at  least  every  twenty-four
 months.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it  shall have become a law and shall apply to benefits paid on or after
 such effective date. Effective immediately the executive director of the
 elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage panel may promulgate any rules
 and regulations necessary for the implementation of this act.