Bill Text: NY A04655 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that a social services official may not recover assistance properly paid as permitted where a recipient or former recipient of such assistance was required to participate in a work experience program without first crediting against such recovery the number of hours that such person actually participated in a work experience program multiplied by the higher of the applicable state or federal minimum wage.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to social services [A04655 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A04655-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4655
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 3, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. TITUS, HOOPER, JAFFEE, COOK, GOTTFRIED, BUCHWALD,
          CRESPO,  ROSENTHAL, M. G. MILLER, RIVERA, CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by
          -- M. of A. GLICK, MOSLEY -- read once and referred to  the  Committee
          on Social Services
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to work experience
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 336-c of the social  services  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
     3    5.  Notwithstanding  any  provision  of  law to the contrary, a social
     4  services official may not recover public  assistance  properly  paid  as
     5  permitted  under  sections  one  hundred  four,  one hundred four-b, one
     6  hundred six, one hundred thirty-one-r and subdivision three  of  section
     7  one  hundred  fifty-eight of this chapter or any other provision of this
     8  title, where a recipient or former  recipient  of  such  assistance  was
     9  required to participate in a work experience program under this section,
    10  without  first  crediting against such recovery the number of hours that
    11  such person actually participated in a work  experience  program  multi-
    12  plied by the higher of the applicable state or federal minimum wage.
    13    §  2.  Effective  immediately,  the office of temporary and disability
    14  assistance shall promulgate  rules  and  regulations,  and  conduct  any
    15  requisite training necessary for the implementation of this act.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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