| NY | A10592 | Intro
25% | Establishes the housing people and animals together grant program to expand access for co-sheltering people experiencing homelessness and victims of domestic violence with companion animals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-20
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A10580 | Intro
25% | Directs the commissioner of social services to study and report on the prevalence and threat of SNAP/EBT benefit fraud.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-20
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | S09824 | Engross
50% | Relates to the focus of the child care availability task force; extends the date for reporting the findings and recommendations of such task force; extends the effectiveness thereof.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-07
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | S09827 | Engross
50% | Establishes an emergency heating energy assistance program benefit to provide emergency assistance to certain households where such household is threatened with shut-off or an energy emergency due to nonpayment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | S09008 | Engross
50% | Increases the time frame for payments of certain expenses by adoptive parents to 180 days prior to birth and 45 days after birth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-05
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | S08767 | Engross
50% | Increases the amount certain individuals are eligible for when receiving enhanced residential care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-05
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | S06696 | Engross
50% | Allows college coursework to be credited as a work activity which may be used toward fulfilling the employment requirements for public assistance benefits under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | S07823 | Engross
50% | Requires the implementation of an electronic benefit transfer system using industry-standard commercial electronic funds transfer technology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | S08917 | Engross
50% | Requires any website or mobile application associated with an electronic benefit transfer system to be offered in the ten most common non-English languages spoken by individuals with limited-English proficiency in the state of New York, based on Unit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | S09649 | Engross
50% | Directs the commissioner of social services to study and report of the prevalence and threat of SNAP/EBT benefit fraud.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A10464 | Intro
25% | Increases the time frame for payments of certain expenses by adoptive parents to 180 days prior to birth and 45 days after birth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A04096 | Intro
25% | Requires the implementation of an electronic benefit transfer system using industry-standard commercial electronic funds transfer technology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | S06424 | Engross
50% | Expands the membership of the interagency task force on trafficking in persons to include the commissioner of the department of transportation, the commissioner of the department of motor vehicles and the executive director of the New York state thru...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-23
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A08282 | Intro
25% | Requires undocumented immigrants to submit to the same level of background checks as lawful immigrants in order to use certain state resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A08281 | Intro
25% | Requires undocumented immigrants to submit to the same level of health background check and be vaccinated in order to use certain state resources.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | S00799 | Engross
50% | Extends the period given to certain applicants for public assistance benefits to request a fair hearing on a determination of their ability to participate in work activities from ten days to sixty days or within sixty days of receipt of a work activi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-20
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A04084 | Intro
25% | Requires the office of temporary and disability assistance to provide an informational notice to supportive housing tenants which contains information about a supportive housing tenant's rights as a tenant, information about their building and other ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A02454 | Intro
25% | Relates to eliminating rent for homeless shelters; provides that a homeless individual or family applying for or receiving temporary housing assistance shall not be required to pay to any local or state government or agency or any provider, room and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-09
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A10130 | Intro
25% | Allows for SNAP benefits to be used to purchase menstrual products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-06
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A09859 | Intro
25% | Directs the commissioner of the office of temporary and disability assistance to develop and implement a program to replace all EBT cards issued in the state which utilize magnetic strips with cards that utilize chip technology.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-24
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A08013 | Intro
25% | Provides that schools, child day cares, day care centers, or community based organizations which support activities for children under the age of eighteen can not serve as a shelter for migrants.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A09807 | Intro
25% | Increases the amount certain individuals are eligible for when receiving enhanced residential care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A09660 | Intro
25% | Requires any website or mobile application associated with an electronic benefit transfer system to be offered in over one hundred languages, including both common and esoteric languages.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | S02144 | Engross
50% | Exempts income earned by a head of household or any person in the household from certain job training or adult education programs from the determination of need for public assistance programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A09623 | Intro
25% | Relates to establishing state disaster emergency requirements for homeless shelters including placement of individuals and families in shelters and reporting of infections related to the emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A09602 | Intro
25% | Relates to clarifying the definitions of vocational educational training and educational activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A09610 | Intro
25% | Establishes rental vouchers for working families; provides definitions; allows for families to make an application for rental vouchers at the appropriate social services district or any facilitated enrollment site authorized by the office of temporar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A09594 | Intro
25% | Provides that applicants for or recipients of food stamps shall not be subjected to finger imaging as a requirement of the food stamp program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A09617 | Intro
25% | Relates to reimbursements for domestic violence services for programs effected by certain provisions of the 2019-20 budget.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A09607 | Intro
25% | Requires electronic benefit transfer systems to include automatic credit or debit card cancellation when fraudulent activity has been reported; directs that such cancellation shall occur as soon as the procedure for reporting fraudulent activity has ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A09614 | Intro
25% | Creates the incentivizing habitability opportunity program; provides that each local social services district shall provide an incentive to owners who enter into a residential lease or rental agreement with an eligible household for a qualified dwell...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | S02496 | Engross
50% | Requires social services districts to, every heating season, automatically re-enroll persons or households currently receiving assistance through the low-income home energy assistance program, so long as each person or household maintains eligibility...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-19
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A09372 | Intro
25% | Relates to the payment of shelter and rent arrears; provides that all shelter arrears payments authorized for applicants to receive an emergency grant to pay for rent, property taxes or mortgage arrears shall be limited to once every year unless the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A05880 | Intro
25% | Establishes the New York healthy incentive program (Part A); automates SNAP and the New York healthy incentive program (Part B); establishes the New York healthy incentive program outreach program (Part C).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A07994 | Intro
25% | Specifies the persons authorized to visit facilities operated by the department of social services or a social services district and homeless projects; amends the definition of homeless project.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | S03069 | Engross
50% | Establishes the New York healthy incentive program (Part A); automates SNAP and the New York healthy incentive program (Part B); establishes the New York healthy incentive program outreach program (Part C).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A05500 | Intro
25% | Relates to increasing the standards of monthly need and home energy grant amounts for persons in receipt of public assistance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A09129 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the imposition of limits on the length of stay at homeless shelters and emergency congregate housing operated by state agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A09134 | Intro
25% | Requires food distributors that accept SNAP benefits to establish a mechanism to apply available coupons or discounts to purchases made by eligible recipients of SNAP benefits without such recipient being required to provide a physical coupon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A09165 | Intro
25% | Directs the office of temporary and disability assistance to promulgate rules and regulations requiring quarterly inspections of homeless shelters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A06197 | Intro
25% | Establishes the mothers and infants lasting change ("MILC") allowance to provide income to eligible participants for the last three months of pregnancy and the first 18 months of the child's life; excludes income received from the MILC allowance for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A05514 | Intro
25% | Removes the requirement that rent arrears be repaid; forgives any outstanding repayment agreements for rent arrears.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A07133 | Intro
25% | Expands the membership of the interagency task force on trafficking in persons to include the commissioner of the department of transportation, the commissioner of the department of motor vehicles and the executive director of the New York state thru...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A02418 | Intro
25% | Relates to assisting persons with medically diagnosed HIV infection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A03253 | Intro
25% | Allows college coursework to be credited as a work activity which may be used toward fulfilling the employment requirements for public assistance benefits under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A05503 | Intro
25% | Provides for internet access and access to internet-enabled devices to recipients of public assistance and to adults and children in shelters, domestic violence residence programs, and other adult and children residence facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A06911 | Intro
25% | Relates to enacting the intergenerational poverty mitigation act; creates a commission to study intergenerational poverty and a pilot program to address intergenerational poverty subject to appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A07004 | Intro
25% | Requires all state and private agencies with mandatory reporters of incidents involving vulnerable people to retrain all staff on reporting to a 9-1-1 operator and the county district attorney's office and state and private websites; requires written...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A02671 | Intro
25% | Allows for three forty-five day extensions of necessary and available emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence instead of the current two forty-five day extensions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
| NY | A04272 | Intro
25% | Increases the personal needs allowance for residents of certain residential health care facilities from fifty-five dollars to one hundred dollars per month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
To Assembly Social Services Committee |
