Bill Text: NY A05463 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to permitting appeals to the department to be conducted by means of a conference telephone, video conference or similar communications systems with and by independent hearing officers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-03 - held for consideration in social services [A05463 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05463-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5463
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 12, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. GOODELL, FRIEND, BRABENEC -- Multi-Sponsored by
          -- M. of A.  BARCLAY, B. MILLER, MORINELLO, STEC, WALSH --  read  once
          and referred to the Committee on Social Services
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  social  services law, in relation to permitting
          appeals to the department of family  assistance  to  be  conducted  by
          means  of a conference telephone, video conference or similar communi-
          cations systems with and by independent hearing officers
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Subdivision 2 of section 22 of the social services law, as
     2  added by chapter 473 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
     3    2. In connection with any appeal pursuant to  this  section,  with  or
     4  without  a  fair  hearing,  [the]  each  commissioner  may designate and
     5  authorize one or more appropriate members of his or her staff  or  inde-
     6  pendent  fair  hearing officers to consider and decide such appeals. Any
     7  staff member or independent  fair  hearing  officer  so  designated  and
     8  authorized  shall have authority to decide such appeals on behalf of the
     9  commissioner with the same force and effect as if the  commissioner  had
    10  made  the decisions.  Fair hearings held in connection with such appeals
    11  shall be held on behalf of the commissioner by members  of  his  or  her
    12  staff  or  independent  fair  hearing officers who are employed for such
    13  purposes or who have been designated and authorized by him or her there-
    14  for.  The fair hearing may be conducted by means of a  conference  tele-
    15  phone,  video  conference  equipment or similar communications equipment
    16  allowing all persons participating in such hearing to hear each other at
    17  the same time. The provisions of this subdivision shall  apply  to  fair
    18  hearings conducted pursuant to subdivision eight of section four hundred
    19  twenty-two of this chapter, and to any hearing required pursuant to this
    20  chapter  concerning  the denial, suspension or revocation of any permit,
    21  certificate or license, and to any hearing held pursuant to section four
    22  hundred fifty-five of this chapter.
    23    § 2. 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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