Bill Text: NY A10761 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Suspends sanctions for noncompliance with public assistance employment program requirements during a state of emergency declared pursuant to an executive order.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-09 - referred to social services [A10761 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A10761-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10761 IN ASSEMBLY July 9, 2020 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Hevesi) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to suspending sanc- tions for noncompliance with public assistance employment program requirements during a state of emergency declared pursuant to an exec- utive order The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 342 of the social services law, as 2 added by chapter 562 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows: 3 6. An individual shall not be sanctioned for failing to comply with 4 the requirements of this title during a state disaster emergency, as 5 defined in section twenty of the executive law, that involves a disease 6 outbreak. 7 7. The provisions of this section shall not apply to persons who are 8 residents of a city having a population of one million or more people. 9 § 2. Section 342-a of the social services law is amended by adding a 10 new subdivision 7 to read as follows: 11 7. An individual shall not be sanctioned for failing to comply with 12 the requirements of this title during a state disaster emergency, as 13 defined in section twenty of the executive law, that involves a disease 14 outbreak. 15 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to any 16 public assistance household a member of which was sanctioned or entered 17 into conciliation between March 7, 2020 and the end of the state disas- 18 ter emergency declared pursuant to executive order 202 of 2020 in 19 response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD16862-01-0