Bill Text: NY S08739 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that receipt of the temporary emergency increase in unemployment compensation benefits as provided for by the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (15 U.S.C. Sec. 9023) shall not affect benefit eligibility for certain public assistance benefits.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-22 - referred to ways and means [S08739 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08739-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8739

                    IN SENATE

                                      July 13, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to  providing  that
          receipt  of  the  temporary emergency increase in unemployment compen-
          sation benefits as  provided  for  by  the  federal  Coronavirus  Aid,
          Relief,  and  Economic  Security  Act  (15 U.S.C. Sec. 9023) shall not
          affect benefit eligibility for certain public assistance benefits

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 8 of section 131-a of the
     2  social services law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (x) to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    (x) All of the income received due to the temporary emergency increase
     5  in  unemployment  compensation  benefits  as provided for by the federal
     6  Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and  Economic  Security  Act  (15  U.S.C.  Sec.
     7  9023).
     8    §  2.  Subdivision  4  of  section  95  of the social services law, as
     9  amended by chapter 41 of the  laws  of  2012,  is  amended  to  read  as
    10  follows:
    11    4.  (a)  A person's need or eligibility for public assistance and care
    12  shall not be affected by his or her receipt of SNAP benefits.
    13    (b) A person's eligibility  for  the  supplemental  nutrition  program
    14  shall  not be affected by receipt of the temporary emergency increase in
    15  unemployment compensation benefits as provided for by the federal  Coro-
    16  navirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (15 U.S.C. Sec. 9023).
    17    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
    18  have been in full force and effect on and after March 27, 2020.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16863-01-0