Bill Text: NY S05926 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that recipients of public assistance benefits must be residents of the state for at least ninety days prior to applying for such benefits.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES [S05926 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05926-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5926

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 22, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. BORRELLO -- 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  requiring  that
          recipients  of  public  assistance  benefits  must be residents of the
          state for at least ninety days prior to applying for such benefits

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

     1    Section 1. Section 131 of the social services law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 5-b to read as follows:
     3    5-b.  No  public  assistance shall be given to an applicant for public
     4  assistance who has not been a resident of the state for at least  ninety
     5  days prior to applying for such assistance.
     6    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
     7  ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05229-01-3