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NYS08918Intro
25%
Requires electronic benefit transfer systems to include automatic credit or debit card cancellation when fraudulent activity has been reported; directs that such cancellation shall occur as soon as the procedure for reporting fraudulent activity has ...
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2024-03-27
To Senate Social Services Committee
NYS08917Intro
25%
Requires any website or mobile application associated with an electronic benefit transfer system to be offered in over one hundred languages, including both common and esoteric languages.
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2024-03-27
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NYS08662Intro
25%
Requires electronic benefit transfer systems to allow for benefit recipients to cancel or lock a credit or debit card when fraud has been suspected or reported; directs that any interactive voice response system associated with an electronic benefit ...
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2024-03-25
To Senate Social Services Committee
NYS08622Intro
25%
Relates to the payment of shelter and rent arrears; provides that all shelter arrears payments authorized for applicants to receive an emergency grant to pay for rent, property taxes or mortgage arrears shall be limited to once every year unless the ...
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2024-03-11
To Senate Social Services Committee
NYS08767Intro
25%
Increases the amount certain individuals are eligible for when receiving enhanced residential care.
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2024-03-08
To Senate Social Services Committee
NYS08655Intro
25%
Relates to the standards of monthly need for persons in receipt of public assistance; provides for an increased monthly allowance for persons and families residing in shelters.
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2024-02-27
To Senate Social Services Committee
NYS01917Intro
25%
Relates to requiring the Department of Homeless Services to notify the affected community board prior to locating transitional housing for the homeless; requires written notification sixty days before the department enters into a contractual arrangem...
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2024-02-27
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NYS08652Intro
25%
Relates to emergency rental assistance; prohibits the requirement that a court proceeding has been initiated against an individual in order for such individual to qualify for a rent arrears grant or ongoing rental assistance (Part A); removes the req...
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2024-02-26
To Senate Social Services Committee
NYS08552Intro
25%
Requires food distributors that accept SNAP benefits to establish a mechanism to apply available coupons or discounts to purchases made by eligible recipients of SNAP benefits without such recipient being required to provide a physical coupon.
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2024-02-13
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NYS08493Intro
25%
Prohibits the imposition of limits on the length of stay at homeless shelters and emergency congregate housing operated by state agencies.
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2024-02-06
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NYS08374Intro
25%
Removes the federal poverty level requirement for recipients where it concerns the one-time disregard of earned income following job entry.
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2024-01-24
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NYS08223Intro
25%
Makes migrant youth under the age of 25 who are receiving runaway and homeless youth services eligible to receive housing vouchers under the family homelessness and eviction prevention supplement ("FHEPS") program.
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2024-01-16
To Senate Social Services Committee
NYS06424Engross
50%
Expands the membership of the interagency task force on trafficking in persons to include the commissioner of the department of transportation, the commissioner of the department of motor vehicles and the executive director of the New York state thru...
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2024-01-04
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NYS07991Intro
25%
Relates to the unearned income of a child when the parent or non-parent caregiver chooses to exclude such child from the public assistance household.
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2024-01-04
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NYS07692Intro
25%
Establishes a task force to examine, evaluate and determine the feasibility of establishing a state-funded version of SNAP; requires the task force to report its findings and a policy brief to the governor and the legislature.
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2024-01-03
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NYS07629Intro
25%
Provides that an applicant for the cooling assistance component of the home energy assistance program shall not be required to demonstrate that the household contains at least one person with a documented medical condition that is exacerbated by extr...
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2024-01-03
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NYS04375Intro
25%
Establishes the standardized human-trafficking recognition training program for private transportation services employees; requires private transportation services to require all employees to undergo a human-trafficking recognition training program e...
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2024-01-03
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NYS00472Intro
25%
Directs the department of social services to establish a centralized homelessness crisis response data system through which state agencies, local governmental entities, including law enforcement agencies, court systems, school districts, and emergenc...
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2024-01-03
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NYS06037Intro
25%
Relates to recipients of public assistance who lack appropriate child care.
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2024-01-03
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NYS00922Intro
25%
Provides that regulations shall provide for payments for the financial support of a foster child for one week following the termination of their foster care status and that such payments shall be at the same schedule and rate as when such child was i...
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2024-01-03
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NYS00588Intro
25%
Relates to the creation of home stability support supplement programs.
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2024-01-03
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NYS07193Intro
25%
Authorizes a victim of domestic violence to apply to the county clerk to remove the violent felony offender from deed of co-owned real property in such county.
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2024-01-03
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NYS01872Intro
25%
Requires homeless shelters to keep an opioid antagonist on hand, have at least one trained employee on duty at all times, sets out the requirements for the training of those employees, and develops a training plan for opioid overdoses in conjunction ...
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2024-01-03
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NYS04706Intro
25%
Relates to the distribution of food stamp applications to emergency feeding programs.
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2024-01-03
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NYS03414Intro
25%
Relates to eliminating rent for homeless shelters; provides that a homeless individual or family applying for or receiving temporary housing assistance shall not be required to pay room and board or contribute any earned or unearned income, available...
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2024-01-03
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NYS06696Intro
25%
Allows college coursework to be credited as a work activity which may be used toward fulfilling the employment requirements for public assistance benefits under certain conditions.
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2024-01-03
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NYS01998Intro
25%
Defines "closed period of eligibility" for purposes of supplemental security income for aged, blind, and disabled persons; includes such time period in the eligibility requirements of such supplemental security income.
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2024-01-03
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NYS07185Intro
25%
Requires the office for the prevention of domestic violence to conduct a study on domestic violence in the transgender community with a focus on Black transgender women.
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2024-01-03
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NYS04561Engross
50%
Provides "WiFi service" internet access to all individuals residing in temporary housing; relates to funding for internet service under the ConnectAll digital equity grant program.
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2024-01-03
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NYS00471Intro
25%
Expands the maximum benefit and eligibility requirements for financial assistance for burial arrangements; provides for expedited assistance during a state disaster emergency.
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2024-01-03
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NYS01567Engross
50%
Requires the office of temporary and disability assistance, in conjunction with the office of mental health and the office of children and family services, to develop a mental illness training course to be utilized by providers of temporary housing a...
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2024-01-03
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NYS04780Intro
25%
Relates to additional state payment assistance; provides that where there is no agreement in effect for federal administration of additional state payments the commissioner of the office of temporary and disability assistance is responsible for provi...
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2024-01-03
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NYS00015Intro
25%
Authorizes certain shelters for victims of domestic violence to be reimbursed for any payment differential for housing a single individual in a room intended for double occupancy.
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2024-01-03
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NYS00535Intro
25%
Relates to enacting the intergenerational poverty mitigation act; creates a commission to study intergenerational poverty and a pilot program to address intergenerational poverty subject to appropriation.
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2024-01-03
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NYS00782Intro
25%
Imposes a one year residency requirement for eligibility for medical assistance; authorizes the commissioner of health to promulgate any and all rules and regulations and take any other measures necessary to implement this act.
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2024-01-03
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NYS02753Intro
25%
Relates to establishing state disaster emergency requirements for homeless shelters including placement of individuals and families in shelters and reporting of infections related to the emergency.
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2024-01-03
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NYS05326Intro
25%
Increases the state reimbursement rate for preventative child protective services from 65 to 75 percent.
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2024-01-03
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NYS02944Intro
25%
Prohibits requiring that an individual have a court proceeding initiated against him or her in order to qualify for a rent arrears grant or ongoing rental assistance.
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2024-01-03
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NYS03359Intro
25%
Exempts amounts received from any financial settlement for childhood sexual abuse for determining eligibility for or amount of benefits under any program provided under the social security law.
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2024-01-03
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NYS07929Intro
25%
Directs the commissioner of social services to authorize the payment of medical assistance funds for rapid whole genome sequencing for persons under twenty-one years of age under certain medical circumstances.
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2024-01-03
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NYS05848Intro
25%
Requires certain safety standards for emergency shelter for victims and alleged victims of domestic violence during a declaration of a state disaster emergency for a disease outbreak; requires accommodations in a hotel or motel where a residential fa...
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2024-01-03
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NYS04888Intro
25%
Implements additional restrictions on actions to recover overpayment of certain assistance.
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2024-01-03
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NYS03070Intro
25%
Implements automatic market rate increases for child care assistance such that assistance will be equal to one hundred percent of the applicable market-related payment rate established by the department.
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2024-01-03
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NYS07663Intro
25%
Establishes a state SNAP minimum benefit program to provide a minimum amount of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits that is higher than the amount of federal SNAP benefits.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Social Services Committee
NYS00799Engross
50%
Extends the period given to certain applicants for public assistance benefits to request a fair hearing on a determination of their ability to participate in work activities from ten days to sixty days or within sixty days of receipt of a work activi...
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2024-01-03
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NYS05926Intro
25%
Requires that recipients of public assistance benefits must be residents of the state for at least ninety days prior to applying for such benefits.
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2024-01-03
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NYS02915Intro
25%
Relates to training and education for sustainable wage jobs and traditional and non-traditional employment in public assistance employment programs.
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2024-01-03
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NYS04519Intro
25%
Relates to eliminating asset limits in calculating the amount of benefits for any household under any public assistance program.
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2024-01-03
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NYS04537Intro
25%
Establishes community residences for victims of domestic violence and their family or household members.
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2024-01-03
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NYS03049Intro
25%
Relates to eliminating rent for homeless shelters in cities having a population of one million or more; provides that a homeless individual or family applying for or receiving temporary housing assistance shall not be required to pay room and board o...
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2024-01-03
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