Bill Text: NY A06059 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that recipients of public assistance benefits must be residents of the state for at least ninety days prior to applying for such benefits.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 16-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to social services [A06059 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A06059-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6059
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     March 4, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. HAWLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Social Services
       AN  ACT  to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring that
         recipients of public assistance benefits  must  be  residents  of  the
         state for at least ninety days prior to applying for such benefits
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 131 of the social services law is amended by adding
    2  a new subdivision 5-b to read as follows:
    3    5-B. NO PUBLIC ASSISTANCE SHALL BE GIVEN TO AN  APPLICANT  FOR  PUBLIC
    4  ASSISTANCE  WHO HAS NOT BEEN A RESIDENT OF THE STATE FOR AT LEAST NINETY
    5  DAYS PRIOR TO APPLYING FOR SUCH ASSISTANCE.
    6    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    7  ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09675-02-1