Bill Text: NY A05666 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An act to provide for a feasibility study of the use of computers in social services certification or recertification

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to social services [A05666 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A05666-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5666
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 17, 2009
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       Introduced by M. of A. V. LOPEZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Social Services
       AN  ACT  to  provide  for a feasibility study of the use of computers in
         social services certification or recertification
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. The commissioner of the office of temporary and disability
    2  assistance, in conjunction with the human  resources  administration  of
    3  the  city  of  New  York,  is hereby authorized and directed to examine,
    4  study, evaluate and make recommendations concerning the  feasibility  of
    5  the utilization of portable personal computers connected to local social
    6  services  offices by phone line and modem, in cities having a population
    7  of one million or more, as a means of determining the  certification  or
    8  recertification  of  social  services  applicants  or  recipients during
    9  personal interviews at locations other than the  local  social  services
   10  offices  and  at  times  which  may  be  at  times when the local social
   11  services offices are normally closed. Such feasibility  study  shall  be
   12  initiated  in those local social services offices which the commissioner
   13  of the office of  temporary  and  disability  assistance  determines  to
   14  service  the most economically distressed areas located in cities having
   15  a population of one million or more.  Such  commissioner  shall  make  a
   16  preliminary  report  to  the  governor and the legislature of his or her
   17  findings, conclusions and recommendations  not  later  than  January  1,
   18  2010,  and a final report of his or her findings, conclusions and recom-
   19  mendations not later than January 1, 2011, and shall submit with his  or
   20  her  reports  such legislative proposals as he or she deems necessary to
   21  implement his or her recommendations.
   22    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   23  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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