Assembly Bill A9180

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to additional options for local social services districts to implement effective welfare-to-work programs; repealer

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A9180 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7091
Current Committee:
Assembly Social Services
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Rpld & add ยง341, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A5119, S1983
2017-2018: A4520, S539
2019-2020: A5573, S901
2021-2022: A4859
2023-2024: A1946

2013-A9180 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to additional options for local social services districts to implement effective welfare-to-work programs; repeals certain provisions of such law relating thereto.

2013-A9180 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  9180

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 26, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. GOODELL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Social Services

AN ACT to amend the social  services  law,  in  relation  to  additional
  options  for  local  social  services districts to implement effective
  welfare-to-work programs; and to repeal certain provisions of such law
  relating thereto

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Purpose.  The  legislature hereby finds that it is in the
public interest to assist public assistance  recipients  to  obtain  job
training  or  work  experience  as a means of enhancing their ability to
obtain employment, thereby increasing their financial  independence  and
self-sufficiency  and  improving  their standard of living. By providing
local social services districts with  additional  flexibility  and  more
options  for  the  administration  of the welfare-to-work program, local
social services districts will be able to  intervene  and  seek  concil-
iation  quickly in the event that a public assistance recipient fails to
attend or participate in designated training or work experience, thereby
maximizing the opportunity for the recipient to successfully participate
in these programs. In the event an able-bodied public assistance recipi-
ent refuses to participate in these programs without good  cause,  local
social services districts would have the ability to conduct a fair hear-
ing  using  video  conferencing  equipment,  thus minimizing the cost to
taxpayers for recipients who are unwilling to participate  without  good
cause.
  S  2.  Section  341  of  the social services law is REPEALED and a new
section 341 is added to read as follows:
  S 341. CONCILIATION; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE.  1. NOTICE OF  NONCOMPLI-
ANCE.   CONSISTENT WITH FEDERAL LAW AND REGULATIONS AND THIS TITLE, IF A
PARTICIPANT HAS FAILED OR REFUSED TO COMPLY  WITH  THE  REQUIREMENTS  OF
THIS  TITLE,  THE SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT SHALL NOTIFY THE PARTICIPANT,
VERBALLY OR IN WRITING, IN PLAIN LANGUAGE THAT SUCH FAILURE  OR  REFUSAL
HAS  TAKEN PLACE, THE SPECIFIC INSTANCE OR INSTANCES OF REFUSAL OR FAIL-
URE TO COMPLY, AND THE NECESSARY ACTIONS THAT MUST BE TAKEN TO  AVOID  A

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

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