Bill Text: NY A00161 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 161

Introduced

Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of the department of labor, in consultation with the commissioners of the office of temporary and disability assistance, the department of health, the office of children and family services, and the department of taxation and finance to conduct a study on income eligibility limits for public benefits to assist the poor and the impact that rising wages has or will have on the eligibility of the working poor to receive such benefits.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - referred to labor [A00161 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A00161-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           161

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  EICHENSTEIN -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Labor

        AN ACT directing a study on the impact  of  increased  minimum  wage  on
          eligibility  for income-based services, programs and subsidies and the
          impact of loss of services on the working poor

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

     1    Section  1.  The commissioner of the department of labor, in consulta-
     2  tion with the commissioners of the office of  temporary  and  disability
     3  assistance,  the department of health, the office of children and family
     4  services, and the department of taxation and finance (hereinafter,  "the
     5  commissioners"),  any other department, division, board, bureau, commis-
     6  sion, agency or public authority of the state or any political  subdivi-
     7  sion  thereof  deemed  necessary  by  the commissioners, shall prepare a
     8  comprehensive study and report on income eligibility limits  for  public
     9  benefits to assist the poor and the impact that rising wages has or will
    10  have  on  the  eligibility of the working poor to receive such benefits.
    11  Such study shall include an analysis of any effect on the eligibility of
    12  working individuals for all programs with an income eligibility require-
    13  ment and/or the potential reduction in  benefits  under  such  programs,
    14  which may occur due to increased wages. The study shall also examine the
    15  impact on individuals and families near the poverty level of the loss of
    16  services,  programs and subsidies and the adequacy of increased wages to
    17  cover the costs of such expenses.
    18    § 2. The commissioners shall publish such report to the governor,  the
    19  temporary  president  of  the  senate,  the speaker of the assembly, the
    20  minority leader of the senate, and the minority leader of the  assembly,
    21  no  later  than the first day of July of the year succeeding the date on
    22  which this act shall have become a law.
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00577-01-5