Bill Text: NY A10068 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 10068 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Directs the social services district to take no action to establish paternity or a child support order when the applicant or recipient for aid to dependent children has established good cause to refuse to cooperate.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-15 - reported referred to rules [A10068 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10068-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                        10068--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 6, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. WRIGHT, CRUZ, SIMON -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Children and Families -- committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the social services law,  in  relation  to  waiving  the
          requirement  of  establishing  paternity  or a child support order for
          certain applicants or recipients of aid to dependent children

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  349-b  of  the social services law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
     3    3. When the applicant or  recipient  has  established  good  cause  to
     4  refuse  to  cooperate, the social services district shall take no action
     5  to establish paternity or a child support order.
     6    § 2. Subdivision 6 of section  158  of  the  social  services  law  is
     7  amended by adding a new paragraph (iii) to read as follows:
     8    (iii)  When  the  applicant or recipient has established good cause to
     9  refuse to cooperate, the social services district shall take  no  action
    10  to establish paternity or a child support order.
    11    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14974-02-0