| NY | S05437 | Intro
25% | Allows prospective and current agency personnel receive certification through remote training methods; requires the establishment of rules and regulations of such remote training.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
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| NY | S05357 | Intro
25% | Caps the monthly maximum payment for hotel rooms to house homeless persons based upon the New York city housing authority Section 8 voucher payment standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
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| NY | S05129 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
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| NY | S05059 | Intro
25% | Provides assistance to incarcerated individuals being released from correctional facilities for enrollment in safety net assistance, public assistance, supplemental assistance program (SNAP), special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
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| NY | S04762 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| NY | S04695 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
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| NY | S04472 | Intro
25% | Implements automatic market rate increases for child care assistance such that assistance will be equal to the applicable payment rate established by the department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
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| NY | S04474 | Intro
25% | Directs the office of temporary and disability assistance to promulgate rules and regulations requiring quarterly inspections of homeless shelters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
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| NY | S04446 | Intro
25% | Enacts the "shelter arrears eviction forestallment act" to provide emergency assistance for rent arrears for the prevention of eviction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
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| NY | S04417 | Intro
25% | Relates to conciliation and non-compliance with public assistance employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
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| NY | S04257 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
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| NY | S03913 | Intro
25% | Relates to the caseloads of preventative services caseworkers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
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| NY | S03937 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the imposition of limits on the length of stay at homeless shelters and emergency congregate housing operated by state agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
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| NY | S03787 | Intro
25% | Relates to eliminating rent for homeless shelters; provides that a homeless individual or family applying for or receiving temporary housing assistance shall not be required to pay to any local or state government or agency or any provider, room and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
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| NY | S03743 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
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| NY | S03582 | Intro
25% | Implements additional restrictions on actions to recover overpayment of certain assistance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
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| NY | S03222 | Intro
25% | Diminishes certain limitations and restrictions on emergency assistance to pay rent arrears; removes the requirement that such assistance be repaid by the recipient.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
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| NY | S03189 | Intro
25% | Requires the office of temporary and disability assistance to make publicly available on its website information regarding waivers, rental supplement plans and shelter supplement plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
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| NY | S02516 | Intro
25% | Directs the department of social services to establish a refugee resettlement program with the goals of achieving economic and social self-sufficiency, assisting victims of human trafficking, and assuring proper foster care for unaccompanied refugees...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| NY | S02488 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| NY | S02401 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of social services to issue EMV-compliant or similar electronic benefit transfer cards and process all electronic benefit transfer system transactions using dynamic data authentication.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
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| NY | S02396 | Intro
25% | Creates caseload standards for adult protective services workers such that such workers have no more than thirty cases at any time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
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| NY | S02257 | Intro
25% | Extends the period given to certain applicants for public assistance benefits to request a fair hearing on a determination of their ability to participate in work activities from ten days to sixty days or within sixty days of receipt of a work activi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
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| NY | S02210 | Intro
25% | Imposes a one year residency requirement for eligibility for medical assistance; authorizes the commissioner of health to promulgate any and all rules and regulations and take any other measures necessary to implement this act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
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| NY | S01779 | Intro
25% | Directs the commissioner of the office of temporary and disability assistance to develop and implement a program to replace all EBT cards issued in the state which utilize magnetic strips with cards that utilize chip technology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
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| NY | S01791 | Intro
25% | Relates to eliminating asset limits in calculating the amount of benefits for any household under any public assistance program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
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| NY | S01771 | Intro
25% | Ensures adequate access to information by individuals who have limited English proficiency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
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| NY | S01624 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
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| NY | S01465 | Intro
25% | Requires the implementation of an electronic benefit transfer system using industry-standard commercial electronic funds transfer technology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
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| NY | S01458 | Intro
25% | Removes the requirement that rent arrears be repaid; forgives any outstanding repayment agreements for rent arrears.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
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| NY | S01454 | Intro
25% | Requires shelter allowances be set at up to one hundred percent of the fair market rent for the local social services district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-10
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| NY | S00913 | Intro
25% | Prohibits requiring that an individual have a court proceeding initiated against them in order to qualify for a rent arrears grant or ongoing rental assistance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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| NY | S00665 | Intro
25% | Establishes a state SNAP minimum benefit program to provide a minimum amount of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits that is higher than the amount of federal SNAP benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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| NY | S00958 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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| NY | S00890 | Intro
25% | Expands the maximum benefit and eligibility requirements for financial assistance for burial arrangements; provides for expedited assistance during a state disaster emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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| NY | S00673 | Intro
25% | Establishes the housing people and animals together grant program to expand access for co-sheltering people experiencing homelessness and victims of domestic violence with companion animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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| NY | S00710 | Intro
25% | Relates to eligibility for the temporary assistance to needy families block grant program, safety net assistance and medical assistance for certain noncitizens.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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| NY | S00201 | Intro
25% | Provides that in the event child protective services receives a duplicate report on an open case that has not been founded, indicated or referred to services, such duplicate report shall merge with the open case and remain open an additional thirty d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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| NY | S00181 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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| NY | S00136 | Intro
25% | Establishes a five-year window for any entity participating in the New York state supportive housing program (NYSSHP) in good standing with such program to participate in a request for proposal to increase their contract rates up to ESSHI levels.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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| NY | S00891 | Intro
25% | Directs the department of social services to establish a centralized homelessness crisis response data system through which state agencies, local governmental entities, including law enforcement agencies, court systems, school districts, and emergenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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| NY | S00168 | Intro
25% | Makes migrant youth under the age of 25 who are receiving runaway and homeless youth services eligible to receive housing vouchers under the family homelessness and eviction prevention supplement ("FHEPS") program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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| NY | S00602 | Intro
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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| NY | S00498 | Intro
25% | Establishes the standardized human-trafficking recognition training program for private transportation services employees; requires private transportation services to require all employees to undergo a human-trafficking recognition training program e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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