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type: "Bill"
title: "Eliminates from income and resources considered for medical assistance eligibility, the corpus and income of a trust established by a disabled person for his or her own benefit"
description: "Eliminates from income and resources considered for medical assistance eligibility, the corpus and income of a trust established by a disabled person for his or her own benefit and payable to the state upon his or her death to the extent of medical assistance benefits paid."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "A 6743"
citation: "New York A 6743 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["BARRETT"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-03-16"
last_action: "2017-08-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47bac909-2f6c-4fa5-964e-b5078d9d2d0c"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/A6743"
source_hash: "aae9525113c8b1434d273c607781eba927dd835211860c61965f7fab27c60027"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---
# New York A 6743 (2017-2018) — Eliminates from income and resources considered for medical assistance eligibility, the corpus and income of a trust established by a disabled person for his or her own benefit
Eliminates from income and resources considered for medical assistance eligibility, the corpus and income of a trust established by a disabled person for his or her own benefit and payable to the state upon his or her death to the extent of medical assistance benefits paid.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **A6743 HTML** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=A6743&term=2017&Text=Y)
2. **A6743 PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2017/A6743)
## Votes
- Floor Vote — **610** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **1365** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- BARRETT — primary (person)
- BRONSON — cosponsor (person)
- GOTTFRIED R — cosponsor (person)
- MOSLEY — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-03-16** REFERRED TO HEALTH `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-25** REPORTED REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-16** REPORTED
- **2017-05-18** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING CAL.448
- **2017-05-23** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2017-05-23** DELIVERED TO SENATE
- **2017-05-23** REFERRED TO HEALTH `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-24** SUBSTITUTED FOR S4779
- **2017-05-24** 3RD READING CAL.899
- **2017-05-24** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2017-05-24** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2017-08-09** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2017-08-21** SIGNED CHAP.187 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/47bac909-2f6c-4fa5-964e-b5078d9d2d0c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).