Bill Text: NY A09594 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 9594

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides that applicants for or recipients of food stamps shall not be subjected to finger imaging as a requirement of the food stamp program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-26 - referred to social services [A09594 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09594-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9594

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 26, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. DAVILA -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Social Services

        AN  ACT  to amend the social services law, in relation to finger imaging
          for food stamps recipients

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 3 of section 95 of the social services law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
     3    (d) No commissioner of social services shall require applicants for or
     4  recipients of food stamps  to  be  subjected  to  finger  imaging  as  a
     5  requirement of the food stamp program.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect September 1, 2025.








         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14707-01-4