Bill Text: NY S06331 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to expanding health insurance coverage under Healthy NY to retired persons who lose benefits offered from their previous employer through no fault of their own.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-26 - REFERRED TO INSURANCE [S06331 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S06331-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6331
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 26, 2012
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  ROBACH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance
       AN ACT to amend the insurance  law,  in  relation  to  expanding  health
         insurance  coverage under the Health NY program to retired persons who
         had insurance coverage from their previous employer and who lose  such
         health insurance benefits through no fault of their own
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subparagraph (A)  of  paragraph  3  of  subsection  (c)  of
    2  section  4326 of the insurance law, as added by chapter 1 of the laws of
    3  1999, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (A) A qualifying individual is [an employed person]:
    5    (i) AN EMPLOYED PERSON who does not have and has not had health insur-
    6  ance with benefits on an expense reimbursed or prepaid basis during  the
    7  twelve  month  period  prior  to the individual's application for health
    8  insurance under the program established by this section;
    9    (ii) AN EMPLOYED PERSON whose employer does not provide  group  health
   10  insurance  and  has not provided group health insurance with benefits on
   11  an expense reimbursed or prepaid  basis  covering  employees  in  effect
   12  during the twelve month period prior to the individual's application for
   13  health insurance under the program established by this section;
   14    (iii)  AN  EMPLOYED  PERSON  WHO  resides  in a household having a net
   15  household income at or below two hundred eight percent of  the  non-farm
   16  federal  poverty level (as defined and updated by the federal department
   17  of health and human services)  or  the  gross  equivalent  of  such  net
   18  income; and
   19    (iv) AN EMPLOYED PERSON WHO is ineligible for Medicare; OR
   20    (V)  A  RETIRED PERSON WHO IS INELIGIBLE FOR MEDICARE AND WHO, THROUGH
   21  HIS OR HER PREVIOUS EMPLOYER, HAD HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE  WITH  BENE-
   22  FITS  AVAILABLE  DURING  HIS  OR HER RETIREMENT, AND THROUGH NO FAULT OF
   23  THEIR OWN, LOSES SUCH HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE.
   24    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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