Bill Text: NY S05765 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 5765 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Exempts amounts received from any financial settlement for childhood sexual abuse for determining eligibility for or amount of benefits under any program provided under the social security law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES [S05765 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05765-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5765

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 14, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services

        AN ACT to amend the  social  services  law,  in  relation  to  exempting
          amounts  received  from  any financial settlement for childhood sexual
          abuse for determining eligibility for or amount of benefits

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  131-n  of the social services law, as amended by
     2  section 16 of part B of chapter 436 of the laws of 1997, is  amended  by
     3  adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     4    4.  If  and  to  the  extent permitted by federal law and regulations,
     5  amounts received from any  financial  settlement  for  childhood  sexual
     6  abuse  shall be exempt from consideration as income or resources for the
     7  purposes of determining eligibility for and the amount of benefits under
     8  any program provided under the authority of this chapter.
     9    § 2. Section 131-n of the social services law, as amended  by  chapter
    10  635  of  the  laws  of 1976, is amended by adding a new subdivision 3 to
    11  read as follows:
    12    3. If and to the extent permitted  by  federal  law  and  regulations,
    13  amounts  received  from  any  financial  settlement for childhood sexual
    14  abuse shall be exempt from consideration as income or resources for  the
    15  purposes of determining eligibility for and the amount of benefits under
    16  any program provided under the authority of this chapter.
    17    §  3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
    18  ments to section 131-n of the social services law made by section one of
    19  this act shall be subject to the expiration and reversion of such subdi-
    20  vision pursuant to section 153 of part B of chapter 436 of the  laws  of
    21  1997  as  amended,  when upon such date the provisions of section two of
    22  this act shall take effect.

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