Bill Text: NY S00547 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to permitting appeals to the department to be conducted by means of a conference telephone, video conference or similar communications systems with and by independent hearing officers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S00547 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00547-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           547
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
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        Introduced by Sens. YOUNG, AKSHAR -- 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 permitting
          appeals to the department of family  assistance  to  be  conducted  by
          means  of a conference telephone, video conference or similar communi-
          cations systems with and by independent hearing officers
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Subdivision 2 of section 22 of the social services law, as
     2  added by chapter 473 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
     3    2. In connection with any appeal pursuant to  this  section,  with  or
     4  without  a  fair  hearing,  [the]  each  commissioner  may designate and
     5  authorize one or more appropriate members of his or her staff  or  inde-
     6  pendent  fair  hearing officers to consider and decide such appeals. Any
     7  staff member or independent  fair  hearing  officer  so  designated  and
     8  authorized  shall have authority to decide such appeals on behalf of the
     9  commissioner with the same force and effect as if the  commissioner  had
    10  made  the decisions.  Fair hearings held in connection with such appeals
    11  shall be held on behalf of the commissioner by members of his  staff  or
    12  independent  fair hearing officers who are employed for such purposes or
    13  who have been designated and authorized by him therefor.  The fair hear-
    14  ing may be conducted by means of a conference telephone,  video  confer-
    15  ence  equipment or similar communications equipment allowing all persons
    16  participating in such hearing to hear each other at the same  time.  The
    17  provisions  of  this  subdivision shall apply to fair hearings conducted
    18  pursuant to subdivision eight of section four hundred twenty-two of this
    19  chapter, and to any hearing required pursuant to this chapter concerning
    20  the denial, suspension or  revocation  of  any  permit,  certificate  or
    21  license,  and  to  any  hearing  held  pursuant  to section four hundred
    22  fifty-five of this chapter.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05940-01-7
        S. 547                              2
     1    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.