Bill Text: NY A04181 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Sets the standards of monthly need for persons and families who receive temporary housing assistance and three meals per day or reside in a shelter for adults that provides three meals per day, shelter for families that provides three meals per day or a public home that provides three meals per day.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-13 - enacting clause stricken [A04181 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04181-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4181
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 1, 2019
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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 the standards of
          monthly need for persons in receipt of public assistance
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 131-a of the social  services  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6.  Notwithstanding  any other provision of law, social services offi-
     4  cials shall, in accordance with the provisions of this section,  provide
     5  public  assistance to persons and families who receive temporary housing
     6  assistance and three meals per day or reside in  a  shelter  for  adults
     7  that  provides  three  meals per day, shelter for families that provides
     8  three meals per day, or a public home that provides three meals per  day
     9  and determined to be eligible by the application of the standard of need
    10  prescribed  by  the  provisions of subdivision two of this section, less
    11  any available income or resources which are not required  to  be  disre-
    12  garded  by  other  provisions  of  this  chapter, in accordance with the
    13  following schedule:
    14                       Number of Persons in Household
    15            One       Two       Three     Four      Five      Six
    16            $144      $238      $322      $419      $520      $603
    17  For each additional eligible needy person in the household  there  shall
    18  be an additional allowance of eighty-five dollars monthly.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April in the year next
    20  succeeding the year in which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01052-01-9