Bill Text: NY S01981 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Directs the office of temporary and disability assistance, in its plan for the low-income home energy assistance program, to utilize the maximum reduction in determining income eligibility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-17 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S01981 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S01981-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1981--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 21, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. YOUNG -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services -- recom- mitted to the Committee on Social Services in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the low-income home energy assistance program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 97 of the social services law, as 2 added by chapter 785 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows: 3 1. The [department] office of temporary and disability assistance is 4 authorized to develop and submit to the governor the application and 5 plan required by title twenty-six of the federal omnibus budget recon- 6 ciliation act of nineteen hundred eighty-one, and to amend and to take 7 whatever other action may be necessary with respect to such plan, 8 including, but not limited to, acting for the state in any negotiations 9 relative to the submission of such plan, and making such arrangements 10 and taking such action, not inconsistent with law, as may be required to 11 submit, implement, administer and operate such plan, and to secure for 12 the state the benefits available under such act. For plans submitted 13 after the first of January next succeeding the effective date of the 14 chapter of the laws of two thousand sixteen that amended this subdivi- 15 sion, such office shall evaluate income eligibility pursuant to a defi- 16 nition of net income, or pursuant to a definition of adjusted gross 17 income which incorporates gross income reductions to the maximum extent 18 consistent with federal plan eligibility requirements. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06192-02-6
