Bill Text: NY A05709 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides an exemption from participation in work activities for an applicant or recipient of public assistance who is a parent or relative of a child who is personally providing care for such child under one year of age.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-06 - enacting clause stricken [A05709 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05709-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5709
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 14, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. TITUS, JAFFEE -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Social Services
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to  exemption  from
          participation  in  work  activities  for  applicants  or recipients of
          public assistance; and providing for the  repeal  of  such  provisions
          upon expiration thereof
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1.   Paragraph (d) of subdivision 1  of  section  332  of  the
     2  social  services law, as amended by section 148 of part B of chapter 436
     3  of the laws of 1997, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (d) a parent or other relative of a child who is personally  providing
     5  care  for  such  child  under  one year of age for a [maximum] period of
     6  twelve months[, only three months of which shall be attributable to  any
     7  one child, except as otherwise extended up to the twelve month period by
     8  the social services official];
     9    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
    10  deemed repealed July 31, 2021.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05880-01-9