Bill Text: NY A01524 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a statewide restaurant meals program as part of the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 53-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-10 - substituted by s64 [A01524 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A01524-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1524

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced   by  M.  of  A.  REYES,  EPSTEIN,  GOTTFRIED,  D. ROSENTHAL,
          L. ROSENTHAL, AUBRY, SIMON, O'DONNELL, JOYNER, JEAN-PIERRE, MONTESANO,
          STIRPE, BARRON, COOK, TAYLOR, WILLIAMS, CRUZ, ABBATE,  WOERNER,  NIOU,
          HUNTER,  JACOBSON, LAVINE, DICKENS, DINOWITZ, COLTON, HEVESI, LUPARDO,
          SEAWRIGHT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. FRONTUS, HYNDMAN  --  read
          once and referred to the Committee on Social Services

        AN  ACT  to amend the social services law, in relation to establishing a
          statewide restaurant meals program as part of the supplemental  nutri-
          tion assistance program

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

     1    Section 1. Section 95 of the social services law is amended by  adding
     2  a new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
     3    11.  (a)  Notwithstanding  any other provision of law to the contrary,
     4  the office shall establish a statewide restaurant meals program as  part
     5  of  SNAP.  Under  the  restaurant  meals  program, households containing
     6  elderly or disabled members, and their spouses, as defined in  7  U.S.C.
     7  2012(j), or homeless individuals, as defined in 7 U.S.C.  2012(l), shall
     8  have the option in accordance with 7 U.S.C. 2012(k) to redeem their SNAP
     9  benefits  at  private  establishments  that  contract with the office to
    10  offer meals for eligible individuals at concessional prices subject to 7
    11  U.S.C. 2018(h).
    12    (b) The office shall  adopt  any  rules  necessary  to  implement  the
    13  provisions of this subdivision.
    14    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    15  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00116-01-1