Bill Text: NY A05986 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to creating a stipend program for students, unpaid caregivers, and eligible persons earning less than $100,000 per year.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-09-15 - enacting clause stricken [A05986 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05986-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5986

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 4, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. PICHARDO, SAYEGH, DE LA ROSA -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Social Services

        AN ACT to amend the social services  law,  in  relation  to  creating  a
          stipend  program  for  students and eligible persons earning less than
          $100,000 per year

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
     2  98 to read as follows:
     3    § 98. Stipend program. 1. For purposes of this section:
     4    (a) "student" shall mean a person enrolled for at least six hours,  or
     5  the  equivalent,  per  semester  in the "state university," a "community
     6  college," or a "statutory or contract college"  as  defined  in  section
     7  three  hundred  fifty of the education law, or enrolled for at least six
     8  hours, or the equivalent, per semester in a  private  university  within
     9  the state; and
    10    (b) "eligible person" shall mean:
    11    (i)  a  student  or a person who is employed for at least twenty hours
    12  per week and such student or person earns less than one hundred thousand
    13  dollars per year; and
    14    (ii) a citizen of the United States; and
    15    (iii) an individual not employed by the state, a  municipality  within
    16  the state, or employed as a "state officer" or "local officer" as speci-
    17  fied in section two of the public officers law.
    18    2.  The  department  shall  develop and implement a stipend program in
    19  conjunction with the  state  comptroller  to  provide  certain  eligible
    20  persons  within  the state a stipend of five hundred dollars each month.
    21  Each household shall not  receive  more  than  one  stipend  under  such
    22  program.  Funding for such program shall be paid from the state treasury
    23  upon the audit and warrant of the comptroller out of funds  made  avail-
    24  able  therefor.  The  department shall create an application process for

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  such program, which shall include a method for verifying eligibility and
     2  a process for annual recertification under this section.
     3    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     4  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
     5  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
     6  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
     7  on or before such effective date.