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 ________________________________________________________________________ 5056 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 11, 2011 ___________ 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