Bill Title: Adopts the family violence option (a/k/a the Wellstone/Murray amendment) in the federal Social Security Act permitting waiver of federal program requirements or penalty provisions for domestic violence services in the State of New York to provide full protection from losing public assistance benefits under the new federal welfare reform law; provides for protection for battered immigrants; mandates domestic violence and sexual abuse training programs for employees and contractors who work for the office of children and family services and have contact with applicants and recipients.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to social services [A03775 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Assemblymember Rhoda Jacobs [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-042	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Helene Weinstein [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-041	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Carmen Arroyo [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-084	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Jeffrion Aubry [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-035	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember James Brennan [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	SD-036	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Marc Butler [R]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-118	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Barbara Clark [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-033	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember William Colton [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-047	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Vivian Cook [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-032	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Steven Cymbrowitz [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-045	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Jeffrey Dinowitz [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-081	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Sandra Galef [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-095	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember David Gantt [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-137	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Deborah Glick [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-066	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Richard Gottfried [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-075	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Dov Hikind [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-048	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Earlene Hooper [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-052	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Joseph Lentol [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-050	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Margaret Markey [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-030	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Joan Millman [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-052	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Catherine Nolan [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-037	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Felix Ortiz [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-051	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Gary Pretlow [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-089	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-067	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember William Scarborough [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-029	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Robert Sweeney [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-011	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Keith Wright [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-070	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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