Bill Text: NY A09134 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires food distributors that accept SNAP benefits to establish a mechanism to apply available coupons or discounts to purchases made by eligible recipients of SNAP benefits without such recipient being required to provide a physical coupon.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-08 - referred to social services [A09134 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A09134-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9134 IN ASSEMBLY February 8, 2024 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Social Services AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring food distributors that accept SNAP benefits to establish a mechanism to apply coupons to purchases made by eligible recipients of SNAP bene- fits 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 12 to read as follows: 3 12. (a) Any food distributor that accepts SNAP benefits shall estab- 4 lish a mechanism to apply any available coupons or discounts to 5 purchases made by eligible recipients of SNAP benefits. 6 (b) Any such available coupons or discounts shall be automatically 7 applied when a customer makes a purchase using SNAP. An eligible recipi- 8 ent of SNAP benefits shall not be required to provide a physical coupon 9 in order to receive the discount from such coupon. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11078-01-3
