Bill Text: NY A08967 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to exempting income earned by persons under the age of 24 from certain workforce development programs from the determination of need for public assistance programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-22 - reported referred to ways and means [A08967 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08967-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8967

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 6, 2020
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  EICHENSTEIN -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Social Services

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to exempting income
          earned by persons under the age of twenty-four from certain  workforce
          development programs from the determination of need for public assist-
          ance programs

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph (vii) of paragraph (a)  of  subdivision  8  of
     2  section 131-a of the social services law, as amended by a chapter of the
     3  laws  of  2019  amending  the  social services law relating to exempting
     4  income earned by persons under the age of twenty-four from certain work-
     5  force development programs from the determination  of  need  for  public
     6  assistance programs, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.6443 and
     7  A.6753-A,  is  amended,  and a new subparagraph (ix) is added to read as
     8  follows:
     9    (vii) all of the income of a dependent child living with a  parent  or
    10  other  caretaker  relative,  who  is  receiving  such aid or for whom an
    11  application for such aid has been made, which is  derived  from  partic-
    12  ipation  in  [(i) the summer youth employment program, provided however,
    13  that in the case of earned income such disregard must be applied for  at
    14  least, but no longer than the length of such program; or (ii)] a program
    15  carried out under the federal job training partnership act (P.L. 97-300)
    16  or  any  successor  act,  provided,  however, that in the case of earned
    17  income such disregard must be applied for at least, but no longer  than,
    18  six  months  per calendar year for each such child. [Provided however, a
    19  local social services district may exempt all the income of an  individ-
    20  ual,  up  to the age of twenty-four, which is derived from their partic-
    21  ipation in the summer  youth  employment  program,  in  accordance  with
    22  clause (i) of this subparagraph;]
    23    (ix)  all of the income derived from participation in the summer youth
    24  employment program, provided however, that such income shall  be  exempt
    25  only for an individual who is not older than age twenty-four at the time
    26  of  enrollment in the summer youth employment program and such disregard

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 8967                             2

     1  must be applied for the length of the individual's participation in such
     2  program.
     3    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
     4  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2019 amending the social services law
     5  relating to exempting income earned by persons under the age of  twenty-
     6  four  from certain workforce development programs from the determination
     7  of need for public assistance programs, as proposed in legislative bills
     8  numbers S.6443 and A.6753-A, takes effect.