New York A 7364: Automated identification of eligible participants for the Medicare savings program

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A07364 Summary:

BILL NOA07364A

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SAME ASSAME AS S09880

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SPONSORPaulin

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §131-sss, Soc Serv L

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Identifies and enrolls SNAP program participants who are eligible for the Medicare savings program.

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BILL NOA07364A

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03/25/2025referred to health

04/28/2025reported referred to ways and means

01/07/2026referred to ways and means

03/17/2026amend and recommit to ways and means

03/17/2026print number 7364a

Go to topA07364 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:HEALTH Chair:Paulin 
DATE:04/28/2025AYE/NAY:25/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Ways and Means PaulinAyeJensenAye

DinowitzAyeGandolfoAye

RosenthalAyeBlumencranzAye

HevesiAyeGrayAye

SteckAyeMaherAye

BraunsteinAyeSlaterAye

SolagesAyeChludzinskiAye

Bichotte HermelAyeNorberAye

SayeghAye

McDonaldAye

ReyesAye

Gonzalez-RojasAye

RajkumarAye

ForrestAye

KellesAye

LucasAbsent

MeeksAye

LunsfordAye

Go to topA07364 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA07364 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7364--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 25, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with
 Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
 reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to automated iden-
 tification of eligible participants for the Medicare savings program

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

 1 Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
 2 131-sss to read as follows:
 3 § 131-sss. Automated identification of program participants. 1. For
 4 the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the follow-
 5 ing meanings:
 6 (a) "Office" shall mean the state office of temporary and disability
 7 assistance.
 8 (b) "Department" shall mean the state department of health.
 9 (c) "SNAP" shall mean the supplemental nutrition assistance program
 10 administered by the state office of temporary and disability assistance.
 11 (d) "MSP" shall mean the Medicare savings program administered by the
 12 state department of health.
 13 2. The office shall update the SNAP application to allow program
 14 participants to consent, in a manner that is separate and apart from
 15 other requests for consent contained in the application, to the exchange
 16 of such participant's information to verify such enrollee's eligibility
 17 for MSP enrollment.
 18 3. The office shall coordinate with the department to facilitate the
 19 secure transmission of data through an interface with the office's
 20 information technology infrastructure.
 21 4. No less than once per quarter, the office, upon receipt of the
 22 required data elements from the department shall conduct automated file
 23 matching to identify SNAP program participants who seem to be eligible

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10678-02-6

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 1 for MSP. Within forty-five days of receipt that the SNAP program
 2 participant's eligibility for MSP is confirmed, the department shall
 3 enroll such SNAP participant in MSP.
 4 5. If the office and department determine that a federal agency must
 5 authorize a qualifying program to participate in the file-matching proc-
 6 ess, the office and department shall request such federal agency to
 7 authorize the program to participate. The office and department shall
 8 inform the assembly, the senate, and the governor of its determination
 9 regarding the need for federal agency authorization and provide a copy
 10 of the authorization request. The office and department shall provide
 11 updates to the assembly speaker, senate majority leader and the governor
 12 every ninety days until such federal agency has provided a final deter-
 13 mination regarding authorization.
 14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundredth day after it
 15 shall have become a law.

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