Bill Text: NY A02426 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to emergency assistance for the replacement of property as a result of a bedbug infestation; authorizes assistance in cases where the infestation cannot be controlled through the use of pesticides, treatments, fumigation, or any other method of extermination by an exterminator.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to social services [A02426 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02426-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2426
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 22, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Social Services
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  social  services  law, in relation to emergency
          assistance for the replacement of property as a  result  of  a  bedbug
          infestation
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5  of  section  131-a  of  the
     2  social services law, as amended by chapter 298 of the laws of 1971, such
     3  subdivision as renumbered by chapter 453 of the laws of 1990, is amended
     4  to read as follows:
     5    (a)  replacement  of  necessary  furniture and clothing for persons in
     6  need of public assistance who have suffered the loss of  such  items  as
     7  the  result of fire, flood or other like catastrophe or as the result of
     8  a bedbug infestation that cannot be controlled through the use of pesti-
     9  cides, treatments, fumigation, or any other method of  extermination  by
    10  an exterminator, provided provisions therefor cannot otherwise be made;
    11    §  2.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  1 of section 303 of the social
    12  services law, as amended by chapter 482 of the laws of 1975, is  amended
    13  to read as follows:
    14    (a) Replacement or repair, as the case may be, of clothing, furniture,
    15  food,  fuel  and  shelter;  (including  repairs  to homes owned by aged,
    16  blind, and  disabled  persons  and  temporary  shelter  until  necessary
    17  repairs  are completed or replacement shelter is secured), provided such
    18  clothing, furniture, food, fuel or shelter was lost or rendered  useless
    19  as  a  result  of  burglary, theft or vandalism, or as a result of fire,
    20  flood or other similar catastrophe which could not have  been  [forseen]
    21  foreseen by such person, and was not under his control, or as the result
    22  of  a  bedbug  infestation  that cannot be controlled through the use of
    23  pesticides, treatments, fumigation, or any other method of extermination
    24  by an exterminator. All such losses shall  have  been  reported  to  and
    25  appropriately  verified  by  local  officials before such replacement or
    26  repair;
    27    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01040-01-9