Bill Text: NY A09232 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that a social services official may not recover assistance properly paid as permitted where a recipient or former recipient of such assistance was required to participate in a work experience program without first crediting against such recovery the number of hours that such person actually participated in a work experience program multiplied by the higher of the applicable state or federal minimum wage.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-28 - reported referred to ways and means [A09232 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A09232-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     April 2, 2014
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       Introduced by M. of A. TITUS, SCARBOROUGH, HOOPER, JAFFEE, COOK, JACOBS,
         GOTTFRIED, BUCHWALD, CRESPO, ROSENTHAL, MILLER, RIVERA, CAHILL, CAMARA
         --  Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.   of A. GLICK, MOSLEY -- read once and
         referred to the Committee on Social Services
       AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to work experience
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  336-c  of  the social services law is amended by
    2  adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
    3    5. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF LAW  TO  THE  CONTRARY,  A  SOCIAL
    4  SERVICES  OFFICIAL  MAY  NOT  RECOVER PUBLIC ASSISTANCE PROPERLY PAID AS
    5  PERMITTED UNDER SECTIONS ONE  HUNDRED  FOUR,  ONE  HUNDRED  FOUR-B,  ONE
    6  HUNDRED  SIX,  ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE-R AND SUBDIVISION THREE OF SECTION
    7  ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-EIGHT OF THIS CHAPTER OR ANY OTHER PROVISION  OF  THIS
    8  TITLE,  WHERE  A  RECIPIENT  OR  FORMER RECIPIENT OF SUCH ASSISTANCE WAS
    9  REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE IN A WORK EXPERIENCE PROGRAM UNDER THIS SECTION,
   10  WITHOUT FIRST CREDITING AGAINST SUCH RECOVERY THE NUMBER OF  HOURS  THAT
   11  SUCH  PERSON  ACTUALLY  PARTICIPATED IN A WORK EXPERIENCE PROGRAM MULTI-
   12  PLIED BY THE HIGHER OF THE APPLICABLE STATE OR FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE.
   13    S 2. Effective immediately, the office  of  temporary  and  disability
   14  assistance  shall  promulgate  rules  and  regulations,  and conduct any
   15  requisite training necessary for the implementation of this act.
   16    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00285-01-3