Bill Text: NY A07742 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows for state agencies, municipalities, and authorities to provide state or local public benefits regardless of immigration status.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-08-02 - enacting clause stricken [A07742 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07742-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7742

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 17, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Social Services

        AN  ACT  to  amend the executive law, the general municipal law, and the
          public authorities law, in relation to providing eligibility for state
          or local public benefits regardless of immigration status

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

     1    Section  1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 170-c
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 170-c. Eligibility for state or local public benefits regardless  of
     4  immigration status. A state agency may, at its discretion, provide state
     5  or  local  public benefits, as defined by the federal personal responsi-
     6  bility and work opportunity reconciliation act  8  U.S.C.  1621  or  any
     7  successor  provision, to persons who, but for such federal law restrict-
     8  ing eligibility for such benefits based on immigration status, would  be
     9  otherwise eligible for such benefits from such agency.  For the purposes
    10  of  this  section,  a  "state agency" shall mean any department, bureau,
    11  commission, board, division, office, or agency of the state.
    12    § 2. The general municipal law is amended  by  adding  a  new  section
    13  99-h-1 to read as follows:
    14    §  99-h-1. Eligibility for state or local benefits regardless of immi-
    15  gration status. A municipal corporation may, at its discretion,  provide
    16  state  or  local  public  benefits,  as  defined by the federal personal
    17  responsibility and work opportunity reconciliation act 8 U.S.C. 1621  or
    18  any  successor  provision,  to  persons  who,  but  for such federal law
    19  restricting eligibility for such benefits based on  immigration  status,
    20  would be otherwise eligible for such benefits from such municipal corpo-
    21  ration.  For  purposes  of this section, a "municipal corporation" shall
    22  mean a county, city, town, village, school district, or board of cooper-
    23  ative educational services of this state or a board of higher  education
    24  in a city having a population of one million or more.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11025-01-9
        A. 7742                             2

     1    §  3.  Article  9 of the public authorities law is amended by adding a
     2  new title 13 to read as follows:
     3                                   TITLE 13
     4                       STATE OR LOCAL PUBLIC BENEFITS
     5  Section 2988.  Eligibility for state or local public benefits regardless
     6                  of immigration status.
     7    § 2988. Eligibility for state or local public benefits  regardless  of
     8  immigration  status.  A  state  authority or local authority may, at its
     9  discretion, provide state or local public benefits, as  defined  by  the
    10  federal  personal responsibility and work opportunity reconciliation act
    11  8 U.S.C. 1621 or any successor provision, to persons who, but  for  such
    12  federal  law  restricting  eligibility  for such benefits based on immi-
    13  gration status, would be otherwise eligible for such benefits from  such
    14  state or local authority.
    15    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.