Bill Text: NY S03178 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires a posting of the rights of individuals who are applying to receive assistance including the right to: a fair hearing; ask about emergency assistance; apply for all benefits and services; ask about child care; free language services; screening and special services if experiencing domestic violence; and a written adequate notice.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-07-14 - SIGNED CHAP.377 [S03178 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S03178-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3178--A
            Cal. No. 208

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 28, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services --  recom-
          mitted  to  the Committee on Social Services in accordance with Senate
          Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee,  ordered  to
          first  and second report, ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate
          and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote  reconsidered,  restored
          to  third  reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place
          in the order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to public notice of
          basic rights

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

     1    Section  1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
     2  134-c to read as follows:
     3    § 134-c. Requirement to publicly post  information.    1.  Each  local
     4  social  services  district  shall  be  required  to  post information in
     5  accordance with this section, in a form and manner to be  determined  by
     6  the  commissioner.  Such  poster shall be conspicuous and visible to all
     7  applicants and/or recipients of public assistance who are  applying  for
     8  assistance and be at least eight and one-half inches by eleven inches in
     9  size.   Such information shall also be posted on the office of temporary
    10  and disability assistance's website.
    11    2. Such information shall include, but not be  limited  to,  informing
    12  individuals  who  are  applying to receive assistance that they have the
    13  right to:
    14    (a) a fair hearing;
    15    (b) ask about emergency assistance;
    16    (c) apply for all benefits and services;
    17    (d) ask about child care;
    18    (e) free language services;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05099-03-2
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     1    (f) screening and special services if experiencing domestic  violence;
     2  and
     3    (g) a written adequate notice.
     4    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     5  have become a law.