Bill Text: NY S02144 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Exempts income earned by a head of household or any person in the household from certain job training or adult education programs from the determination of need for public assistance programs.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-03-27 - referred to social services [S02144 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02144-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2144

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 18, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. PERSAUD -- 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 exempting income
          earned by  persons  from  certain  job  training  or  adult  education
          programs from the determination of need for public assistance programs

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 8  of  section  131-a  of  the
     2  social services law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (xi) to read
     3  as follows:
     4    (xi)  all  of  the  income of a head of household or any person in the
     5  household, who is receiving such aid or for whom an application for such
     6  aid has been made, which is derived  from  participation  in  a  program
     7  carried  out  under the federal workforce innovation and opportunity act
     8  (P.L. 113-128) or any successor act  or  public  assistance  employment,
     9  training or skills certification program, provided, however, that in the
    10  case  of  earned income such disregard must be applied for at least, but
    11  no longer than, six consecutive months following the  last  day  of  the
    12  month in which such person commences employment after completing a qual-
    13  ifying job training or adult education program.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




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