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 ________________________________________________________________________ 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