Bill Text: NY A01579 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires that recipients of public assistance benefits must be residents of the state for at least ninety days prior to applying for such benefits.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-06 - held for consideration in social services [A01579 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A01579-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1579 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 12, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. HAWLEY, GIGLIO, RAIA, PALMESANO, MONTESANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, BLANKENBUSH, McLAUGHLIN, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring that recipients of public assistance benefits must be residents of the state for at least ninety days prior to applying for such benefits The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 131 of the social services law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 5-b to read as follows: 3 5-b. No public assistance shall be given to an applicant for public 4 assistance who has not been a resident of the state for at least ninety 5 days prior to applying for such assistance. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 7 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02289-01-7
