Bill Text: NY A03537 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 3537 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Suspends sanctions for noncompliance with public assistance employment program requirements during a state of emergency declared pursuant to an executive order.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-11-18 - enacting clause stricken [A03537 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A03537-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3537

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 27, 2021
                                       ___________

        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 suspending sanc-
          tions  for  noncompliance  with  public  assistance employment program
          requirements during a state of emergency declared pursuant to an exec-
          utive order

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 342 of the social services law, as
     2  added by chapter 562 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
     3    6.  An  individual  shall not be sanctioned for failing to comply with
     4  the requirements of this title during a  state  disaster  emergency,  as
     5  defined  in section twenty of the executive law, that involves a disease
     6  outbreak.
     7    7. The provisions of this section shall not apply to persons  who  are
     8  residents of a city having a population of one million or more people.
     9    §  2.  Section 342-a of the social services law is amended by adding a
    10  new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
    11    7. An individual shall not be sanctioned for failing  to  comply  with
    12  the  requirements  of  this  title during a state disaster emergency, as
    13  defined in section twenty of the executive law, that involves a  disease
    14  outbreak.
    15    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to any
    16  public assistance household a member of which was sanctioned or  entered
    17  into  conciliation between March 7, 2020 and the end of the state disas-
    18  ter emergency declared pursuant  to  executive  order  202  of  2020  in
    19  response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01772-01-1