Bill Text: NY A01897 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the homestead exemption used in the calculation for public assistance to be the same as the homestead exemption under the civil practice law and rules.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - referred to social services [A01897 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01897-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1897

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GOODELL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Social Services

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation  to  requiring  the
          homestead  exemption  used in the calculation for public assistance to
          be the same as the homestead exemption under the  civil  practice  law
          and rules

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraphs (d) and (i) of subdivision 1 of section 131-n of
     2  the social services law, as amended by section 5 of part U of chapter 56
     3  of the laws of 2022, are amended to read as follows:
     4    (d) the home which is the usual residence of the  household,  provided
     5  that the value thereof does not exceed the homestead exemption specified
     6  in subdivision (a) of section five thousand two hundred six of the civil
     7  practice law and rules,
     8    (i)  for  a period of six months, real property which the household is
     9  making a good faith effort to sell, in accordance with department  regu-
    10  lations  and  tangible  personal  property necessary for business or for
    11  employment purposes in accordance with department regulations; provided,
    12  however,  that the social services district shall be entitled to recover
    13  the cost of assistance or care provided during such six month period  up
    14  to  the  net  equity  value  of    such   property   and   may,   in its
    15  discretion, impose a lien on such property to ensure repayment  of  such
    16  assistance upon the sale of such property, and
    17    §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
    18  the amendments to section 131-n of  the  social  services  law  made  by
    19  section one of this act shall not affect the expiration and reversion of
    20  such section and shall be deemed to expire therewith.


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