Bill Text: NY S01902 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires notice to unemployment applicants of the supplemental nutrition assistance program and the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children (WIC).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-09-14 - SIGNED CHAP.369 [S01902 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01902-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1902--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Labor  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to providing notice to unem-
          ployment applicants of the supplemental nutrition  assistance  program
          and  special  supplemental  nutrition  program  for women, infants and
          children

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

     1    Section  1. Section 540 of the labor law, as amended by chapter 251 of
     2  the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 540. Information about [food stamp utility, and rental and mortgage]
     4  assistance programs. The commissioner shall establish procedures whereby
     5  each person who files a claim for  unemployment  insurance  pursuant  to
     6  section  five hundred ninety-six of this article, shall receive informa-
     7  tion about the [food stamp] supplemental  nutrition  assistance  program
     8  provided  by  the office of temporary and disability assistance pursuant
     9  to subdivision six of section ninety-five-a of the social services  law,
    10  the  special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and chil-
    11  dren provided by the department  of  health  under  section  twenty-five
    12  hundred  seven  of the public health law, and the utility assistance and
    13  rental and mortgage assistance programs available through  the  division
    14  of  housing  and community renewal and the office of temporary and disa-
    15  bility assistance. The commissioner shall also provide information about
    16  such programs on the department's website.  Such  information  shall  be
    17  prominently  displayed  and  easily  accessible  by individuals filing a
    18  claim or certifying for unemployment benefits.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    20  it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04244-07-3