Bill Text: NY A11108 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 11108 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides internet access to all individuals receiving temporary housing assistance; provides that one hundred percent of the cost for the expense incurred for local social service districts to provide such internet access shall be reimbursed by the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-11-06 - referred to social services [A11108 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A11108-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          11108

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 6, 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 providing inter-
          net access to all individuals receiving temporary housing assistance

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

     1    Section  1. Section 17 of the social services law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision (l) to read as follows:
     3    (l) require that each local social  services  district  shall  provide
     4  internet  access  to all individuals receiving temporary housing assist-
     5  ance in such district. For purposes of this subdivision, temporary hous-
     6  ing assistance shall include but not be limited to, a family shelter,  a
     7  shelter  for adults, a domestic violence shelter, a runaway and homeless
     8  youth shelter, or a safe house for refugees.
     9    § 2. Section 153 of the social services law is amended by adding a new
    10  subdivision 13 to read as follows:
    11    13. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to  the  contrary,  one
    12  hundred  percent  of  the cost for the expense incurred for local social
    13  services districts to provide internet access as required by subdivision
    14  (l) of section seventeen of this chapter  shall  be  reimbursed  by  the
    15  state.
    16    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    17  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    18  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
    19  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
    20  on or before such effective date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD17408-04-0