Bill Text: NY S00241 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to finger imaging of certain persons receiving food stamps.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES [S00241 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S00241-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          241
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by Sen. SQUADRON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services
       AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to  finger  imaging
         for food stamps recipients
         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 139-a of the social  services  law
    2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (n) to read as follows:
    3    (N) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, APPLI-
    4  CANTS  OR  RECIPIENTS OF FOOD STAMPS WHO ARE NOT ALSO APPLICANTS FOR, OR
    5  RECIPIENTS OF, FAMILY OR SAFETY NET ASSISTANCE SHALL NOT BE  SUBJECT  TO
    6  THE FINGER IMAGING MATCHING IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM.
    7    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    8  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00289-01-3