Bill Text: NY S07983 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Requires the department of social services and not-for-profit corporations to inquire into whether applicants for financial assistance have engaged in military service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-17 - SUBSTITUTED BY A8641B [S07983 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07983-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7983--B
            Cal. No. 1520
                    IN SENATE
                                      June 2, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services -- commit-
          tee discharged and said bill committed to the Committee  on  Rules  --
          reported  favorably  from said committee to 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 and the not-for-profit corpo-
          ration law, in relation to inquiring into  past  military  service  on
          applications for public welfare
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 20 of the social services  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (j) to read as follows:
     3    (j)  to  ensure the provision, on any form required to be completed at
     4  application or recertification for the purpose  of  obtaining  financial
     5  assistance  pursuant to this chapter, the form shall contain a check-off
     6  question asking whether the applicant or recipient or a member of his or
     7  her family served in the United States military, and an option to answer
     8  in the affirmative. Where the applicant  or  recipient  answers  in  the
     9  affirmative  to  such  question,  the office of temporary and disability
    10  assistance shall ensure that contact information for the state  division
    11  of  veterans'  affairs  is  provided  to such applicant or recipient, in
    12  addition to any other materials provided.
    13    § 2. Section 202 of the not-for-profit corporation law is  amended  by
    14  adding a new paragraph (g) to read as follows:
    15    (g) Every corporation receiving any kind of state funding shall ensure
    16  the  provision  on  any  form required to be completed at application or
    17  recertification for the purpose of obtaining financial assistance pursu-
    18  ant to this chapter, that the application form shall contain a check-off
    19  question asking whether the applicant or recipient or a member of his or
    20  her family served in the United States military, and an option to answer
    21  in the affirmative. Where the applicant  or  recipient  answers  in  the
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13367-07-6

        S. 7983--B                          2
     1  affirmative  to  such  question,  the  not-for-profit  corporation shall
     2  ensure that contact information for  the  state  division  of  veterans'
     3  affairs  is  provided  to such applicant or recipient in addition to any
     4  other materials provided.
     5    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     6  have become a law.
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