Bill Text: NY S02294 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Permits an applicant for public assistance or care to select the local social services office most accessible to such person's residence if such office is in the local social services district in which such person resides and such office has the capacity to accept such person; requires written notification of this provision be given to an applicant by the social services official.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-26 - PRINT NUMBER 2294A [S02294 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02294-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2294--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 22, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sens. DILAN, SQUADRON -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on  Social  Services
          --  recommitted to the Committee on Social Services in accordance with
          Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend the social services law, in relation to assignment of
          social services recipients to local offices
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
     2  134-c to read as follows:
     3    § 134-c. Assignment to local offices. For the purposes of assigning  a
     4  person applying for public assistance or care on or after January first,
     5  two  thousand  eighteen  to  a  local social services office, the social
     6  services official shall allow such person to  choose  the  local  social
     7  services  office  most  accessible  to such person's place of residence,
     8  provided that such local social services office is  located  within  the
     9  local  social  services  district in which such person resides, provided
    10  that the capacity of such office permits the  assignment.    The  social
    11  services  official  shall  inform,  in  writing,  an applicant of public
    12  assistance or care of the provisions of this section.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately  provided,  however,  that
    14  the  commissioner  of  the office of temporary and disability assistance
    15  shall promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary  to  imple-
    16  ment the provisions of this act on or before January 1, 2018.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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