Bill Text: NY A10384 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows for the denial, suspension or discontinuance of public assistance or care where a person does not participate in three consecutive scheduled interviews with a social services official.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-13 - referred to social services [A10384 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10384-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10384

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 13, 2022
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        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. K. Brown) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to allowing for the
          denial,  suspension  or  discontinuance  of  public assistance or care
          where a person does not participate  in  three  consecutive  scheduled
          interviews with a social services official

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 134-a of the social services  law,
     2  as  amended  by  chapter  144 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    3. The social services official shall require  that  persons  applying
     5  for or receiving public assistance and care be interviewed personally at
     6  a  time  and  in a manner provided by the regulations of the department,
     7  and the social services official may  provide  the  option  of  a  phone
     8  interview  or  other  digital means for such interview at the request of
     9  the applicant or recipient. In  the  event  a  person  applying  for  or
    10  receiving  public  assistance and care who is required to be interviewed
    11  by a social services official does not participate in three  consecutive
    12  scheduled  interviews, the social services official may deny, suspend or
    13  discontinue public assistance or care until  such  time  as  the  person
    14  applying  for or receiving public assistance and care participates in an
    15  interview.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14335-01-2