Bill Text: NY S00481 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows for state agencies, municipalities, and authorities to provide state or local public benefits regardless of immigration status.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S00481 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00481-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           481

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen. PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, the general municipal  law,  and  the
          public authorities law, in relation to providing eligibility for state
          or local public benefits regardless of immigration status

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

     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  170-d
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  170-d. Eligibility for state or local public benefits regardless of
     4  immigration status. A state agency may, at its discretion, provide state
     5  or local public benefits, as defined by the federal  personal  responsi-
     6  bility  and  work  opportunity  reconciliation  act 8 U.S.C. 1621 or any
     7  successor provision, to persons who, but for such federal law  restrict-
     8  ing  eligibility for such benefits based on immigration status, would be
     9  otherwise eligible for such benefits from such agency.  For the purposes
    10  of this section, a "state agency" shall  mean  any  department,  bureau,
    11  commission, board, division, office, or agency of the state.
    12    §  2.  The  general  municipal  law is amended by adding a new section
    13  99-h-1 to read as follows:
    14    § 99-h-1. Eligibility for state or local benefits regardless of  immi-
    15  gration  status. A municipal corporation may, at its discretion, provide
    16  state or local public benefits,  as  defined  by  the  federal  personal
    17  responsibility  and work opportunity reconciliation act 8 U.S.C. 1621 or
    18  any successor provision, to  persons  who,  but  for  such  federal  law
    19  restricting  eligibility  for such benefits based on immigration status,
    20  would be otherwise eligible for such benefits from such municipal corpo-
    21  ration. For purposes of this section, a  "municipal  corporation"  shall
    22  mean a county, city, town, village, school district, or board of cooper-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  ative  educational services of this state or a board of higher education
     2  in a city having a population of one million or more.
     3    §  3.  Article  9 of the public authorities law is amended by adding a
     4  new title 13 to read as follows:
     5                                   TITLE 13
     6                       STATE OR LOCAL PUBLIC BENEFITS
     7  Section 2988. Eligibility for state or local public benefits  regardless
     8                  of immigration status.
     9    § 2988. Eligibility  for  state or local public benefits regardless of
    10  immigration status. A state authority or local  authority  may,  at  its
    11  discretion,  provide  state  or local public benefits, as defined by the
    12  federal personal responsibility and work opportunity reconciliation  act
    13  8  U.S.C.  1621 or any successor provision, to persons who, but for such
    14  federal law restricting eligibility for such  benefits  based  on  immi-
    15  gration  status, would be otherwise eligible for such benefits from such
    16  state or local authority.
    17    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.