Bill Text: NY A10761 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 10761 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Suspends sanctions for noncompliance with public assistance employment program requirements during a state of emergency declared pursuant to an executive order.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-09 - referred to social services [A10761 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10761-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10761

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 9, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of 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 suspending sanc-
          tions for noncompliance  with  public  assistance  employment  program
          requirements during a state of emergency declared pursuant to an exec-
          utive order

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 342 of the social services law, as
     2  added by chapter 562 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
     3    6. An individual shall not be sanctioned for failing  to  comply  with
     4  the  requirements  of  this  title during a state disaster emergency, as
     5  defined in section twenty of the executive law, that involves a  disease
     6  outbreak.
     7    7.  The  provisions of this section shall not apply to persons who are
     8  residents of a city having a population of one million or more people.
     9    § 2. Section 342-a of the social services law is amended by  adding  a
    10  new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
    11    7.  An  individual  shall not be sanctioned for failing to comply with
    12  the requirements of this title during a  state  disaster  emergency,  as
    13  defined  in section twenty of the executive law, that involves a disease
    14  outbreak.
    15    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  apply  to  any
    16  public  assistance household a member of which was sanctioned or entered
    17  into conciliation between March 7, 2020 and the end of the state  disas-
    18  ter  emergency  declared  pursuant  to  executive  order  202 of 2020 in
    19  response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.



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