Bill Text: NY A01262 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to working with the USDA to receive approvals and develop online fresh food purchasing options throughout the state; adds a repeal date.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-01-25 - substituted by s878 [A01262 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A01262-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1262

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 8, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Social Services

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to working with the
          USDA  to  receive  approvals  and develop online fresh food purchasing
          options throughout the state; and to amend a chapter of  the  laws  of
          2020  amending  the social services law relating to using supplemental
          nutrition assistance program benefits to purchase online groceries and
          to  the  state  supplemental  nutrition  assistance  program  outreach
          program,  as  proposed  in  legislative bills numbers S. 8247-A and A.
          10673, in relation to the effectiveness thereof

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 95 of the social
     2  services law, as added by a chapter of the laws  of  2020  amending  the
     3  social  services law relating to using supplemental nutrition assistance
     4  program benefits to purchase online groceries and to the  state  supple-
     5  mental  nutrition  assistance  program  outreach program, as proposed in
     6  legislative bills numbers S. 8247-A and A. 10673, is amended to read  as
     7  follows:
     8    (b) [The] Subject to an online food purchasing program operated by the
     9  United  States  department  of  agriculture,  food and nutrition service
    10  (USDA), the office shall promptly seek any necessary  [federal  approval
    11  needed to enter into an agreement with all grocery retailers prepared to
    12  offer   SNAP  online  purchasing  or  subsequently  available  programs]
    13  approvals from the USDA in order  to  maximize  availability  of  online
    14  fresh  food  purchasing options throughout the state. Within one hundred
    15  eighty days after the effective date of this paragraph, the office shall
    16  work with the USDA to  develop  a  plan  seeking  to  maximize  retailer
    17  participation  in the USDA's SNAP online purchasing [options] program in
    18  the state. The office shall periodically review the plan and revise  the
    19  plan  as  necessary.  The  plan,  and any updates of such plan, shall be

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  submitted to the governor, the speaker of the assembly, and  the  tempo-
     2  rary  president  of  the  senate.  The office shall continue to seek all
     3  necessary waivers from the [United  States  department  of  agriculture,
     4  food  and  nutrition  service]  USDA,  to  the extent necessary [for the
     5  office to carry out the plan, pursuant to federal law  and  regulations]
     6  to implement the program.
     7    §  2.  Section  4 of a chapter of the laws of 2020 amending the social
     8  services law relating to using supplemental nutrition assistance program
     9  benefits to purchase online groceries  and  to  the  state  supplemental
    10  nutrition  assistance  program outreach program, as proposed in legisla-
    11  tive bills numbers S. 8247-A  and  A.  10673,  is  amended  to  read  as
    12  follows:
    13    §  4.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
    14  deemed repealed three years after such effective date.
    15    § 3. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    16  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2020 amending the social services law
    17  relating  to using supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits to
    18  purchase online  groceries  and  to  the  state  supplemental  nutrition
    19  assistance  program  outreach  program, as proposed in legislative bills
    20  numbers S. 8247-A and A. 10673, takes effect.