| NY | S01567 | Engross
50% | Requires the office of temporary and disability assistance, in conjunction with the office of mental health and the office of children and family services, to develop a mental illness training course to be utilized by providers of temporary housing a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-31
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| NY | S01872 | Intro
25% | Requires homeless shelters to keep an opioid antagonist on hand at all times and trained personnel when required by when applicable law, regulation, code, or operating plan approved by a social services district or the commissioner otherwise requires...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-20
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| NY | S09629 | 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] | 2024-05-16
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| NY | S09484 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of social services to issue EMV-compliant or similar electronic benefit transfer cards and process all electronic benefit transfer system transactions using dynamic data authentication.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
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| NY | A05515 | Engross
50% | Defines "closed period of eligibility" for purposes of supplemental security income for aged, blind, and disabled persons; includes such time period in the eligibility requirements of such supplemental security income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
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| NY | S09358 | Intro
25% | Requires the New York state office for the prevention of domestic violence to establish trauma-informed standards for domestic violence abuse intervention programs; establishes requirements for such standards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-13
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| NY | S09296 | 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] | 2024-05-10
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| NY | S06070 | Intro
25% | Directs the department of social services to establish a refugee resettlement program with the goals of achieving economic and social self-sufficiency, assisting victims of human trafficking, and assuring proper foster care for unaccompanied refugees...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-10
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| NY | S09267 | Intro
25% | Relates to conciliation and non-compliance with public assistance employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-08
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| NY | S07204 | Intro
25% | Directs the commissioner of the office of children and family services to establish a consumer directed childcare pilot program for eligible families, within amounts appropriated therefor, in up to five counties with populations between 160,000 and 3...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
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| NY | S08918 | 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] | 2024-03-27
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| NY | S08622 | 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] | 2024-03-11
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| NY | S08655 | Intro
25% | Relates to the standards of monthly need for persons in receipt of public assistance; provides for an increased monthly allowance for persons and families residing in shelters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
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| NY | S01917 | Intro
25% | Relates to requiring the Department of Homeless Services to notify the affected community board prior to locating transitional housing for the homeless; requires written notification sixty days before the department enters into a contractual arrangem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
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| NY | S08652 | Intro
25% | Relates to emergency rental assistance; prohibits the requirement that a court proceeding has been initiated against an individual in order for such individual to qualify for a rent arrears grant or ongoing rental assistance (Part A); removes the req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
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| NY | S08552 | 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] | 2024-02-13
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| NY | S08493 | 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] | 2024-02-06
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| NY | S08223 | Intro
25% | Makes migrant youth under the age of 25 who are receiving runaway and homeless youth services eligible to receive housing vouchers under the family homelessness and eviction prevention supplement ("FHEPS") program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
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| NY | S07692 | Intro
25% | Establishes a task force to examine, evaluate and determine the feasibility of establishing a state-funded version of SNAP; requires the task force to report its findings and a policy brief to the governor and the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S07629 | Intro
25% | Provides that an applicant for the cooling assistance component of the home energy assistance program shall not be required to demonstrate that the household contains at least one person with a documented medical condition that is exacerbated by extr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S04375 | Intro
25% | Establishes the standardized human-trafficking recognition training program for private transportation services employees; requires private transportation services to require all employees to undergo a human-trafficking recognition training program e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S00472 | Intro
25% | Directs the department of social services to establish a centralized homelessness crisis response data system through which state agencies, local governmental entities, including law enforcement agencies, court systems, school districts, and emergenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S06037 | Intro
25% | Relates to recipients of public assistance who lack appropriate child care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S00922 | Intro
25% | Provides that regulations shall provide for payments for the financial support of a foster child for one week following the termination of their foster care status and that such payments shall be at the same schedule and rate as when such child was i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S00588 | Intro
25% | Relates to the creation of home stability support supplement programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S07193 | Intro
25% | Authorizes a victim of domestic violence to apply to the county clerk to remove the violent felony offender from deed of co-owned real property in such county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S04706 | Intro
25% | Relates to the distribution of food stamp applications to emergency feeding programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S01998 | Intro
25% | Defines "closed period of eligibility" for purposes of supplemental security income for aged, blind, and disabled persons; includes such time period in the eligibility requirements of such supplemental security income.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S00471 | Intro
25% | Expands the maximum benefit and eligibility requirements for financial assistance for burial arrangements; provides for expedited assistance during a state disaster emergency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S04780 | Intro
25% | Relates to additional state payment assistance; provides that where there is no agreement in effect for federal administration of additional state payments the commissioner of the office of temporary and disability assistance is responsible for provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S00535 | 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
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| NY | S00782 | Intro
25% | Imposes a one year residency requirement for eligibility for medical assistance; authorizes the commissioner of health to promulgate any and all rules and regulations and take any other measures necessary to implement this act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S02753 | 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] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S05326 | Intro
25% | Increases the state reimbursement rate for preventative child protective services from 65 to 75 percent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S05848 | Intro
25% | Requires certain safety standards for emergency shelter for victims and alleged victims of domestic violence during a declaration of a state disaster emergency for a disease outbreak; requires accommodations in a hotel or motel where a residential fa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S03070 | Intro
25% | Implements automatic market rate increases for child care assistance such that assistance will be equal to one hundred percent of the applicable market-related payment rate established by the department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S07663 | Intro
25% | Establishes a state SNAP minimum benefit program to provide a minimum amount of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits that is higher than the amount of federal SNAP benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S05926 | Intro
25% | Requires that recipients of public assistance benefits must be residents of the state for at least ninety days prior to applying for such benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S02915 | Intro
25% | Relates to training and education for sustainable wage jobs and traditional and non-traditional employment in public assistance employment programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S04519 | Intro
25% | Relates to eliminating asset limits in calculating the amount of benefits for any household under any public assistance program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S04537 | Intro
25% | Establishes community residences for victims of domestic violence and their family or household members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S03049 | Intro
25% | Relates to eliminating rent for homeless shelters in cities having a population of one million or more; provides that a homeless individual or family applying for or receiving temporary housing assistance shall not be required to pay room and board o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S07789 | Intro
25% | Relates to eligibility for the temporary assistance to needy families block grant program, safety net assistance and medical assistance for certain noncitizens.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S02542 | Intro
25% | Relates to training and education for sustainable wage jobs and traditional and non-traditional employment in public assistance employment programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S02514 | Intro
25% | Directs the office of temporary and disability assistance to promulgate rules and regulations requiring quarterly inspections of homeless shelters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S05644 | Intro
25% | Relates to the transparency and quality of care of operators of adult care facilities; requires certain applicants for adult care facilities to provide an opportunity for public comment on the application.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S06430 | Engross
50% | Exempts aid derived from funding from childcare stabilization grants, childcare desert funding, or other non-recurring funding, issued by the office of children and family services to childcare providers from income for the purpose of determining aid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S04736 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the reissuance of emergency assistance to needy families with children, safety net assistance, SNAP benefits, or emergency assistance for aged, blind and disabled persons in instances of fraud or theft of benefits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S01631 | Intro
25% | Relates to making certain housing programs available regardless of immigration status; provides that local social services districts in a city with a population of five million or more shall be permitted to offer certain housing programs to individua...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S07009 | Intro
25% | Prohibits hotels and homeless shelters from displacing vulnerable persons in favor of non-United States citizens or non-lawful permanent residents of the United States; establishes fines for violations of such prohibitions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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