Bill Text: NY A01984 | 2023-2024 | 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: Partisan Bill (Republican 21-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to social services [A01984 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01984-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1984

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. HAWLEY, J. M. GIGLIO, PALMESANO, REILLY, DeSTEFA-
          NO, SMULLEN, FRIEND, FITZPATRICK, NORRIS, ANGELINO, DiPIETRO, TANNOUS-
          IS,  DURSO,  BYRNES, McDONOUGH, MIKULIN, GALLAHAN, MILLER, BRABENEC --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, BLANKENBUSH,  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.
                                                                   LBD05229-01-3
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