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NYA09660Intro
25%
Requires any website or mobile application associated with an electronic benefit transfer system to be offered in over one hundred languages, including both common and esoteric languages.
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2024-03-27
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA09623Intro
25%
Relates to establishing state disaster emergency requirements for homeless shelters including placement of individuals and families in shelters and reporting of infections related to the emergency.
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2024-03-26
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA09602Intro
25%
Relates to clarifying the definitions of vocational educational training and educational activities.
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2024-03-26
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA09610Intro
25%
Establishes rental vouchers for working families; provides definitions; allows for families to make an application for rental vouchers at the appropriate social services district or any facilitated enrollment site authorized by the office of temporar...
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2024-03-26
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA09620Intro
25%
Establishes a two generation pilot program to promote family stability and children's school readiness; provides for the repeal of this section in five years.
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2024-03-26
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA09594Intro
25%
Provides that applicants for or recipients of food stamps shall not be subjected to finger imaging as a requirement of the food stamp program.
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2024-03-26
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA09617Intro
25%
Relates to reimbursements for domestic violence services for programs effected by certain provisions of the 2019-20 budget.
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2024-03-26
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA09607Intro
25%
Requires electronic benefit transfer systems to include automatic credit or debit card cancellation when fraudulent activity has been reported; directs that such cancellation shall occur as soon as the procedure for reporting fraudulent activity has ...
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2024-03-26
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA09614Intro
25%
Creates the incentivizing habitability opportunity program; provides that each local social services district shall provide an incentive to owners who enter into a residential lease or rental agreement with an eligible household for a qualified dwell...
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2024-03-26
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA09522Intro
25%
Includes water-works corporations in the definition of "utility corporation" for purposes of automated identification of OTDA assistance program participants; provides for automated identification of OTDA assistance program participants for participa...
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2024-03-20
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA09372Intro
25%
Relates to the payment of shelter and rent arrears; provides that all shelter arrears payments authorized for applicants to receive an emergency grant to pay for rent, property taxes or mortgage arrears shall be limited to once every year unless the ...
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2024-03-18
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA05880Intro
25%
Establishes the New York healthy incentive program (Part A); automates SNAP and the New York healthy incentive program (Part B); establishes the New York healthy incentive program outreach program (Part C).
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2024-03-12
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA07994Intro
25%
Specifies the persons authorized to visit facilities operated by the department of social services or a social services district and homeless projects; amends the definition of homeless project.
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2024-03-07
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA05500Intro
25%
Relates to increasing the standards of monthly need and home energy grant amounts for persons in receipt of public assistance.
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2024-03-01
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA09129Intro
25%
Prohibits the imposition of limits on the length of stay at homeless shelters and emergency congregate housing operated by state agencies.
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2024-02-08
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA09134Intro
25%
Requires food distributors that accept SNAP benefits to establish a mechanism to apply available coupons or discounts to purchases made by eligible recipients of SNAP benefits without such recipient being required to provide a physical coupon.
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2024-02-08
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA09165Intro
25%
Directs the office of temporary and disability assistance to promulgate rules and regulations requiring quarterly inspections of homeless shelters.
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2024-02-08
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA08612Intro
25%
Establishes an emergency heating energy assistance program benefit to provide emergency assistance to certain households where such household is threatened with shut-off or an energy emergency due to nonpayment.
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2024-01-12
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA06197Intro
25%
Establishes the mothers and infants lasting change ("MILC") allowance to provide income to eligible participants for the last three months of pregnancy and the first 18 months of the child's life; excludes income received from the MILC allowance for ...
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2024-01-11
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA05514Intro
25%
Removes the requirement that rent arrears be repaid; forgives any outstanding repayment agreements for rent arrears.
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2024-01-11
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA07133Intro
25%
Expands the membership of the interagency task force on trafficking in persons to include the commissioner of the department of transportation, the commissioner of the department of motor vehicles and the executive director of the New York state thru...
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2024-01-09
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA02418Intro
25%
Relates to assisting persons with medically diagnosed HIV infection.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA03253Intro
25%
Allows college coursework to be credited as a work activity which may be used toward fulfilling the employment requirements for public assistance benefits under certain conditions.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA05503Intro
25%
Provides for internet access and access to internet-enabled devices to recipients of public assistance and to adults and children in shelters, domestic violence residence programs, and other adult and children residence facilities.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA06911Intro
25%
Relates to enacting the intergenerational poverty mitigation act; creates a commission to study intergenerational poverty and a pilot program to address intergenerational poverty subject to appropriation.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA07004Intro
25%
Requires all state and private agencies with mandatory reporters of incidents involving vulnerable people to retrain all staff on reporting to a 9-1-1 operator and the county district attorney's office and state and private websites; requires written...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA02671Intro
25%
Allows for three forty-five day extensions of necessary and available emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence instead of the current two forty-five day extensions.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA04272Intro
25%
Increases the personal needs allowance for residents of certain residential health care facilities from fifty-five dollars to one hundred dollars per month.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA04416Intro
25%
Requires social services districts to distribute educational materials pertaining to sexual health, including information on HIV prevention and pre-exposure prophylaxis to individuals enrolled in Medicaid.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA08013Intro
25%
Provides that schools, child day cares, day care centers, or community based organizations which support activities for children under the age of eighteen can not serve as a shelter for migrants.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA07556Intro
25%
Enacts the HOPE pilot program; allows households to apply for multiple food and anti-poverty benefits simultaneously online; enables families to work with nonprofit and government agencies to enact action plans to boost their long-term self-sufficien...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA01984Intro
25%
Requires that recipients of public assistance benefits must be residents of the state for at least ninety days prior to applying for such benefits.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA01389Intro
25%
Requires a local social services district to accept or deny an application for public assistance as soon as possible but no later than thirty days after the date of the application.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA08449Intro
25%
Requires that applications for payment of burial expenses by a local public welfare official or for reimbursement by a local public welfare official for burial expenses paid by relatives or friends of the deceased shall include all necessary consent ...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA04926Intro
25%
Establishes a co-navigation services program for persons who are deaf-blind to provide services to a person who is deaf-blind that assist the person to physically access the person's environment and to make informed decisions, including providing vis...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA05875Intro
25%
Exempts income earned by a head of household or any person in the household from certain job training or adult education programs from the determination of need for public assistance programs.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA02463Intro
25%
Directs social services districts to contract with non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence to provide outreach and education to students in public and private high schools; provides for state reimbursement therefor.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA08282Intro
25%
Requires undocumented immigrants to submit to the same level of background checks as lawful immigrants in order to use certain state resources.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA04452Intro
25%
Authorizes the reissuance of emergency assistance to needy families with children, safety net assistance, SNAP benefits, or emergency assistance for aged, blind and disabled persons in instances of fraud or theft of benefits.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA04115Intro
25%
Establishes a SNAP and cash assistance fraud victims compensation fund.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA05507Intro
25%
Relates to the standards of monthly need for persons in receipt of public assistance; provides for an increased monthly allowance for persons and families residing in shelters.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA05511Intro
25%
Requires all social service's applications to be made publicly available online on the department's website.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA06733Intro
25%
Exempts aid derived from funding from childcare stabilization grants, childcare desert funding, or other non-recurring funding, issued by the office of children and family services to childcare providers from income for the purpose of determining aid...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA01897Intro
25%
Requires the homestead exemption used in the calculation for public assistance to be the same as the homestead exemption under the civil practice law and rules.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA05506Intro
25%
Establishes transition shelters for individuals released from prison for up to six months to provide housing counseling and prevent the risk of overdose.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA05513Intro
25%
Relates to making certain housing programs available regardless of immigration status; provides that local social services districts in a city with a population of five million or more shall be permitted to offer certain housing programs to individua...
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA03421Intro
25%
Removes references to the number of hours of care provided by a caregiver each week from the definition of caregiver for purposes of authorizing criminal history checks.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA05502Intro
25%
Provides an additional monthly public assistance allowance of $10 for menstrual products, including but not limited to, tampons, sanitary napkins, cups and panty liners.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA00160Intro
25%
Allows for state agencies, municipalities, and authorities to provide state or local public benefits regardless of immigration status.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
NYA08396Intro
25%
Increases personal needs allowance amounts for individuals who are deemed eligible.
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2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee
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