Bill Text: NY A10141 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
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 9-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-06 - print number 10141a [A10141 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A10141-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10141--A IN ASSEMBLY March 20, 2018 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PICHARDO, TAYLOR, WILLIAMS, BARRON, COOK, JOYNER, RIVERA, ARROYO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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. LBD14925-03-8A. 10141--A 2 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.