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S00229 Summary:

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Add Art 2 Title 4 §§270 - 274, Eld L

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Establishes an elderly dental insurance coverage program; specifies eligibility requirements; specifies penalties for fraud and abuse; appropriates $20,000,000 therefor.

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BILL NOS00229 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO FINANCE

01/07/2026REFERRED TO FINANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 229

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. TEDISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

 AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to establishing an elderly
 dental insurance coverage program; and making an appropriation there-
 for

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

 1 Section 1. Article 2 of the elder law is amended by adding a new title
 2 4 to read as follows:
 3 TITLE 4
 4 ELDERLY DENTAL INSURANCE
 5 COVERAGE PROGRAM
 6 Section 270. Definitions.
 7 271. Elderly dental insurance coverage program.
 8 272. Program eligibility.
 9 273. Regulations.
 10 274. Penalties for fraud and abuse.
 11 § 270. Definitions. For purposes of this title, the terms:
 12 1. "Income" shall mean "household gross income" as defined in the real
 13 property tax circuit breaker credit program, pursuant to subparagraph
 14 (C) of paragraph one of subsection (e) of section six hundred six of the
 15 tax law, but only shall include the income of program applicants and
 16 spouses and shall exclude the income of other members of the household.
 17 2. "Resident" shall mean an individual legally domiciled within the
 18 state.
 19 § 271. Elderly dental insurance coverage program. The director shall
 20 establish an elderly dental insurance coverage program, in consultation
 21 with the commissioner of civil service, within the state employee dental
 22 insurance plan. Such program shall provide comprehensive and routine
 23 dental care services to senior residents who meet the program eligibil-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00780-01-5

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 1 ity requirements established in section two hundred seventy-two of this
 2 title. Such program shall only be available in Dutchess, Kings, Sarato-
 3 ga, Schenectady, Ulster, Warren and Washington counties until such date
 4 that the director determines that expanding such program shall be appro-
 5 priate.
 6 § 272. Program eligibility. 1. Persons eligible for coverage under
 7 section two hundred seventy-one of this title shall include:
 8 (a) any unmarried resident who is at least sixty-five years of age and
 9 whose income for the calendar year immediately preceding the effective
 10 date of this title, is less than or equal to twenty-two thousand
 11 dollars. After the initial determination of eligibility, each eligible
 12 individual must be redetermined eligible at least every twenty-four
 13 months; and
 14 (b) any married resident who is at least sixty-five years of age and
 15 whose income for the calendar year immediately preceding the effective
 16 date of the annual coverage period when combined with the income in the
 17 same calendar year of such married person's spouse beginning on or after
 18 January first, two thousand twenty-six, is less than or equal to twen-
 19 ty-five thousand dollars. After the initial determination of eligibil-
 20 ity, each eligible individual must be redetermined eligible at least
 21 every twenty-four months.
 22 2. Eligibility for assistance under this title shall not be granted to
 23 any person who at the time an application is made is receiving equiv-
 24 alent or better coverage from any other public or private third party
 25 payment source or insurance plan than those benefits provided for under
 26 this title.
 27 3. The director shall establish a sliding scale such that the more
 28 income a person eligible for coverage p