Bill Text: NY A10155 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Increases the federal poverty level requirement for recipients where it concerns the one-time disregard of earned income following job entry.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-21 - reported referred to ways and means [A10155 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10155-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10155--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 10, 2024
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Davila) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services --  commit-
          tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
          mitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to  increasing  the
          federal  poverty  level  requirement for recipients of social services
          where it concerns the one-time disregard of  earned  income  following
          job entry for up to six consecutive months

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph (xiii) of paragraph (a) of  subdivision  8  of
     2  section  131-a of the social services law, as added by section 2 of part
     3  X of chapter 56 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (xiii) once during the lifetime of a recipient of  public  assistance,
     5  all of the earned income of such recipient will be disregarded following
     6  job entry, provided that such exemption of income for purposes of public
     7  assistance  eligibility shall be for no more than six consecutive months
     8  from the initial date of obtaining such employment and that the  recipi-
     9  ent's  total income shall not be more than [two] four hundred percent of
    10  the federal poverty level. In the event a recipient moves  from  one  to
    11  another social services district, this disregard shall follow the recip-
    12  ient.    The  commissioner  shall  seek  any federal waiver necessary to
    13  effectuate the one-time earned income disregard pursuant to this  subdi-
    14  vision.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14068-05-4