Bill Text: NY A05875 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Exempts income earned by a head of household or any person in the household from certain job training or adult education programs from the determination of need for public assistance programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to social services [A05875 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05875-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5875

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. DAVILA, L. ROSENTHAL, STIRPE, CARROLL, ZINERMAN,
          FORREST, LUCAS -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on  Social
          Services

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to exempting income
          earned  by  persons  from  certain  job  training  or  adult education
          programs from the determination of need for public assistance programs

          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 8 of section 131-a of the
     2  social services law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (xi) to read
     3  as follows:
     4    (xi) all of the income of a head of household or  any  person  in  the
     5  household, who is receiving such aid or for whom an application for such
     6  aid  has  been  made,  which  is derived from participation in a program
     7  carried out under the federal workforce innovation and  opportunity  act
     8  (P.L.  113-128)  or  any  successor act or public assistance employment,
     9  training or skills certification program, provided, however, that in the
    10  case of earned income such disregard must be applied for at  least,  but
    11  no  longer  than,  six  consecutive months following the last day of the
    12  month in which such person commences employment after completing a qual-
    13  ifying job training or adult education program.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




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