Bill Text: NY A08764 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 8764 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Establishes a statewide restaurant meals program as part of the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 38-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-23 - REFERRED TO RULES [A08764 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08764-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         8764--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 25, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  REYES,  EPSTEIN,  GOTTFRIED, MOSLEY, JAFFEE,
          D. ROSENTHAL,  L. ROSENTHAL,  D'URSO,  SIMON,  AUBRY,  JOYNER,  BLAKE,
          O'DONNELL,  JEAN-PIERRE,  MONTESANO,  STIRPE, DenDEKKER, BARRON, COOK,
          TAYLOR, CRUZ, WILLIAMS, ABBATE,  DE LA ROSA,  NIOU,  HUNTER,  WOERNER,
          LAVINE  --  Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. FRONTUS, HYNDMAN, LENTOL --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services  --  recom-
          mitted to the Committee on Social Services in accordance with Assembly
          Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to  establishing  a
          statewide  restaurant meals program as part of the supplemental nutri-
          tion assistance program

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

     1    Section  1. Section 95 of the social services law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
     3    11. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law  to  the  contrary,
     4  the  office shall establish a statewide restaurant meals program as part
     5  of SNAP. Under  the  restaurant  meals  program,  households  containing
     6  elderly  or  disabled members, and their spouses, as defined in 7 U.S.C.
     7  2012(j), or homeless individuals, as defined in 7 U.S.C.  2012(l), shall
     8  have the option in accordance with 7 U.S.C. 2012(k) to redeem their SNAP
     9  benefits at private establishments that  contract  with  the  office  to
    10  offer meals for eligible individuals at concessional prices subject to 7
    11  U.S.C. 2018(h).
    12    (b)  The  office  shall  adopt  any  rules  necessary to implement the
    13  provisions of this subdivision.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    15  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13915-03-0