New York S 1617: Provides residential electric customers with an option for greater control of the cost of such service by installing real time smart meters

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S01617 Summary:

BILL NOS01617 

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SAME ASSAME AS A02459

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SPONSORRIVERA

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COSPNSRGONZALEZ, JACKSON, MAY, WEBB

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §4403-f, Pub Health L; amd §366-a, Soc Serv L

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Provides for automatic enrollment and recertification simplification for Medicaid managed care plans and long term care plans.

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BILL NOS01617 

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01/13/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

01/21/20251ST REPORT CAL.128

01/22/20252ND REPORT CAL.

01/27/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

03/24/2025PASSED SENATE

03/24/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

03/24/2025referred to ways and means

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

02/24/20261ST REPORT CAL.385

02/25/20262ND REPORT CAL.

02/26/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/01/2026PASSED SENATE

06/01/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

06/01/2026referred to ways and means

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1617

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 13, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. RIVERA, JACKSON, MAY -- read twice and ordered
 printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the social services law, in
 relation to automatic enrollment and recertification simplification
 for Medicaid eligible recipients

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

 1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 7 of section 4403-f of the
 2 public health law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (iv) to read
 3 as follows:
 4 (iv) Where a person determined eligible for Medicaid ("Medicaid recip-
 5 ient") has been determined by the commissioner or the designee of such
 6 commissioner to require community-based long term care services for more
 7 than a continuous period of one hundred twenty days, and the Medicaid
 8 recipient has not selected and enrolled in a managed long term care plan
 9 prior to any expiration date of such determination of need for long term
 10 care, after being provided with information to make an informed choice,
 11 the commissioner shall assign the recipient to a managed long term care
 12 plan, taking into account consistency with any prior community-based
 13 direct care workers having recently served the recipient, quality
 14 performance criteria, capacity, and geographic accessibility. The
 15 commissioner may assign participants pursuant to such criteria on a
 16 weighted basis. A recipient assigned to a managed long term care plan
 17 under this subparagraph shall be deemed to have been determined to be in
 18 need of long term care services for more than a continuous period of one
 19 hundred twenty days and eligible to be enrolled in a managed long term
 20 care plan.
 21 § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 366-a of the social
 22 services law, as added by section 51 of part A of chapter 1 of the laws
 23 of 2002, is amended to read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04128-01-5

 S. 1617 2

 1 (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subdivi-
 2 sion, an applicant or recipient may attest to the amount of [his or her]
 3 their accumulated resources, unless such applicant or recipient is seek-
 4 ing medical assistance payment for long term care services for the first
 5 time. A recipient who has already provided documentation of resources
 6 may attest to the amount of accumulated resources if it has remained the
 7 same or is less than the amount originally documented. For purposes of
 8 this paragraph, long term care services shall mean care, treatment,
 9 maintenance, and services described in paragraph (b) of subdivision [1]
 10 one of section three hundred sixty-seven-f of this title, with the
 11 exception of short term rehabilitation, as defined by the commissioner
 12 of health.
 13 § 3. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 5 of section 366-a of the social
 14 services law, as amended by section 12 of part D of chapter 56 of the
 15 laws of 2013, is relettered par