Bill Text: NY S05759 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 5759 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Exempts certain income and resources provided to persons enrolled in certain pilot programs with direct cash transfers in determining eligibility for public assistance benefits.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-10 - SUBSTITUTED BY A6709B [S05759 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S05759-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         5759--B
            Cal. No. 807

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 18, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. BRISPORT, SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and  when  printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services
          -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second
          report, ordered to a third reading,  amended  and  ordered  reprinted,
          retaining  its place in the order of third reading -- passed by Senate
          and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote  reconsidered,  restored
          to  third  reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place
          in the order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the  social  services  law,  in  relation  to  exempting
          certain  income  and resources provided to persons enrolled in certain
          pilot programs with direct cash transfers in  determining  eligibility
          for  public  assistance benefits; and providing for the repeal of such
          provisions upon expiration thereof

          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 (x) to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    (x)  Any financial assistance received by individuals as part of their
     5  participation in a pilot program that has developed a plan to study  and
     6  evaluate  the  impact  and potential benefits  of direct cash transfers.
     7  Such exemption and disregard shall be applicable for the length of  time
     8  the  individual  participates  in the program, but not longer than sixty
     9  months. The commissioner shall seek federal waiver authority  to  disre-
    10  gard  income  for the direct cash transfer pilot program for the purpose
    11  of the supplemental nutrition assistance program.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    13  have  become a law and shall expire six years after such effective date.
    14  Effective immediately, the adoption, amendment and/or repeal of any rule
    15  or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effec-
    16  tive date are authorized to be made on or before such date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09965-05-1