Bill Text: NY S04091 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to orders for child support obligors to seek employment or participate in job training, employment counseling or other available programs designed to lead to employment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-16 - SUBSTITUTED BY A7794A [S04091 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S04091-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4091--A
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
March 17, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. SAVINO -- (at request of the Office of Court Adminis-
tration) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be
committed to the Committee on Judiciary -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the family court act and the social services law, in
relation to orders for child support obligors to seek employment or
participate in job training, employment counseling or other available
programs designed to lead to employment
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 437-a of the family court act, as added by chapter
2 182 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
3 S 437-a. Referral to work programs. In any proceeding to establish,
4 MODIFY OR ENFORCE an order of support, if the [respondent] SUPPORT OBLI-
5 GOR is unemployed, the court may require the [respondent] SUPPORT OBLI-
6 GOR to seek employment, or to participate in job training, employment
7 counseling or other programs designed to lead to employment provided
8 such programs are available. The court shall not require the [respond-
9 ent] SUPPORT OBLIGOR to seek employment or to participate in job train-
10 ing, employment counseling, or other programs designed to lead to
11 employment under this section if the [respondent] SUPPORT OBLIGOR is in
12 receipt of supplemental security income or social security disability
13 benefits.
14 S 2. Paragraph (h) of subdivision 2 of section 454 of the family court
15 act, as added by chapter 214 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as
16 follows:
17 (h) the court may require the respondent[, if the persons for whom the
18 respondent has failed to pay support are applicants for or recipients of
19 public assistance,] to participate in work activities as defined in
20 title nine-B of article five of the social services law. Those respond-
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 ents ordered to participate in work activities need not be applicants
2 for or recipients of public assistance.
3 S 3. Subdivision 20 of section 111-h of the social services law, as
4 added by chapter 182 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
5 20. If the [respondent] SUPPORT OBLIGOR is required to participate in
6 work programs pursuant to section four hundred thirty-seven-a of the
7 family court act, and the court enters an order of support on behalf of
8 the persons in receipt of public assistance, the support collection unit
9 shall not file a petition to increase the support obligation for twelve
10 months from the date of entry of the order of support if the [respond-
11 ent's] SUPPORT OBLIGOR'S income is derived from participation in such
12 programs.
13 S 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
14 have become a law.
