Bill Text: NY A03084 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires residency for the receipt of social services; residency being defined as domicile for at least a year in the state of New York.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 18-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to social services [A03084 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A03084-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3084
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 23, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. GRAF -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Social Services
       AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring  resi-
         dency for the receipt of social services
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph (g) of subdivision 1 of section 158 of the social
    2  services law, as added by section 44 of part B of  chapter  436  of  the
    3  laws  of  1997,  is  amended and a new paragraph (h) is added to read as
    4  follows:
    5    (g) is a qualified alien who is ineligible to receive assistance fund-
    6  ed under the temporary assistance for needy families block grant  solely
    7  because  of section four hundred three of the federal personal responsi-
    8  bility and work opportunity reconciliation act of 1996 (P.L.    104-193)
    9  or is an alien who is permanently residing under color of law but is not
   10  a qualified alien[.], OR
   11    (H) IS A RESIDENT OF NEW YORK STATE AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN ARTICLE
   12  FOUR OF THIS CHAPTER.
   13    S  2.  The social services law is amended by adding a new section 21-b
   14  to read as follows:
   15    S 21-B. RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT. THE OFFICE OF TEMPORARY AND  DISABILITY
   16  ASSISTANCE  SHALL  REQUIRE  THAT THE RECIPIENT OF ANY BENEFIT UNDER THIS
   17  CHAPTER SHALL BE A RESIDENT OF NEW YORK STATE AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN
   18  ARTICLE FOUR OF THIS CHAPTER. NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL BE CONSTRUED
   19  IN ANY WAY TO LIMIT THE POWER OF THE OFFICE OF TEMPORARY AND  DISABILITY
   20  ASSISTANCE  TO  PROMULGATE  THE REQUIREMENTS FOR BENEFITS RECEIVED UNDER
   21  THIS CHAPTER AS SUCH POWER IS GRANTED BY SECTION ONE HUNDRED  TWENTY-TWO
   22  OF  PART  B  OF  CHAPTER FOUR HUNDRED THIRTY-SIX OF THE LAWS OF NINETEEN
   23  HUNDRED NINETY-SEVEN.
   24    S 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   25  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD07194-01-3