Bill Text: NY A01451 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of health to create an electronic online system for registration into the elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - referred to aging [A01451 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01451-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1451

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. JONES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Aging

        AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to the powers of the  commis-
          sioner of health in administering the elderly pharmaceutical insurance
          coverage program

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 244 of the elder law, as added  by
     2  section  3-h  of part A of chapter 59 of the laws of 2011, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    4. implementing alternative program improvements for the efficient and
     5  effective operation of the program in accordance with the provisions  of
     6  this  title,  which shall include, but not be limited to, the establish-
     7  ment and maintenance of an electronic  online  system  for  registration
     8  into  the program. The existence of the electronic online system author-
     9  ized by this section  shall  not  require  applicants  to  utilize  such
    10  system;
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02515-01-3