Bill Text: NY A05056 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires a health care practitioner to consider whether an individual has been required by a local social services district to apply for supplemental security income as a condition of eligibility of public assistance.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-23 - enacting clause stricken [A05056 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A05056-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5056
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 11, 2011
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       Introduced  by M. of A. WRIGHT, GLICK, ORTIZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
         of A. COOK, LAVINE, McENENY, J. RIVERA -- read once  and  referred  to
         the Committee on Social Services
       AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to an individual's
         application for supplemental security income
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision 4 of section 332-b of the social services law
    2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows:
    3    (F) WHEN MAKING THE DETERMINATION REQUIRED PURSUANT TO  PARAGRAPH  (E)
    4  OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION, CONSIDER WHETHER THE INDIVIDUAL HAS BEEN REQUIRED
    5  BY THE LOCAL SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT TO APPLY FOR SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY
    6  INCOME AS A CONDITION OF THAT INDIVIDUAL'S ELIGIBILITY  FOR  RECEIPT  OF
    7  PUBLIC ASSISTANCE.
    8    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    9  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03609-01-1
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