Bill Text: NY S05428 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Requires the office of temporary and disability assistance to work with local social services districts to determine what information shall be given to applicants and recipients of public assistance and to post such information on their website.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-10 - referred to social services [S05428 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S05428-Amended.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        5428--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     May 16, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed 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 public notice of
         basic rights
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new  section
    2  134-c to read as follows:
    3    S  134-C.  PUBLIC NOTICE OF BASIC RIGHTS.  THE OFFICE OF TEMPORARY AND
    4  DISABILITY  ASSISTANCE  SHALL  WORK  WITH  THE  LOCAL  SOCIAL   SERVICES
    5  DISTRICTS  TO  DETERMINE  WHAT INFORMATION SHOULD BE GIVEN TO APPLICANTS
    6  AND RECIPIENTS OF PUBLIC ASSISTANCE. THE OFFICE OF TEMPORARY  AND  DISA-
    7  BILITY  ASSISTANCE  SHALL  FURTHER  DETERMINE  WHICH OF THAT INFORMATION
    8  SHALL BE PLACED ON THE OFFICE'S WEBSITE.
    9    S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   10  have become law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD10689-02-3
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