STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10054
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       May 6, 2016
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. GOTTFRIED, CRESPO -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the social services  law,  in  relation  to  eligibility
          under the basic health program
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 369-gg of the social services  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 8-a to read as follows:
     3    8-a.  An  individual  who is permanently residing in the United States
     4  under color of law, and whose immigration  status  renders  him  or  her
     5  ineligible  for  federal  financial  participation  in  the basic health
     6  program under 42 U.S.C.  section 18051, but otherwise meets  the  eligi-
     7  bility  requirements  in  subdivision  three  of  this section, shall be
     8  eligible for the basic health program, without regard to federal  finan-
     9  cial participation.
    10    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    11  ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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