STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4219 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 6, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. DILAN -- 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 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 nineteen 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, 2019. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09263-01-7