Bill Text: NY A02201 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that the state shall take over all of the cost of the safety net program from every county throughout the state.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to social services [A02201 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A02201-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2201
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 15, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SKARTA-
DOS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the full take-
over by the state of New York of county safety net costs
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 153 of the social services law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 18 to read as follows:
3 18. FROM AN AMOUNT SPECIFICALLY APPROPRIATED THEREFOR, THE COMMISSION-
4 ER OF THE OFFICE OF TEMPORARY AND DISABILITY ASSISTANCE SHALL PROVIDE
5 ADDITIONAL ENHANCED REIMBURSEMENT FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF SAFETY NET
6 ASSISTANCE TO EVERY SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT THROUGHOUT THE STATE. THE
7 REIMBURSEMENT PROVIDED BY THE COMMISSIONER SHALL BE EQUAL TO THE COSTS
8 OF SAFETY NET ASSISTANCE INCURRED BY EACH SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT
9 THROUGHOUT NEW YORK STATE.
10 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
11 the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06338-01-5
