Assembly Bill A9053

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to emergency assistance for the replacement of property as a result of a bedbug infestation

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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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2015-A9053 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง131-a & 303, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A171
2019-2020: A2426

2015-A9053 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to emergency assistance for the replacement of property as a result of a bedbug infestation; authorizes assistance in cases where the infestation cannot be controlled through the use of pesticides, treatments, fumigation, or any other method of extermination by an exterminator.

2015-A9053 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  9053

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 20, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Social Services

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  social  services  law, in relation to emergency
  assistance for the replacement of property as a  result  of  a  bedbug
  infestation

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

  Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5  of  section  131-a  of  the
social services law, as amended by chapter 298 of the laws of 1971, such
subdivision as renumbered by chapter 453 of the laws of 1990, is amended
to read as follows:
  (a)  replacement  of  necessary  furniture and clothing for persons in
need of public assistance who have suffered the loss of  such  items  as
the  result of fire, flood or other like catastrophe OR AS THE RESULT OF
A BEDBUG INFESTATION THAT CANNOT BE CONTROLLED THROUGH THE USE OF PESTI-
CIDES, TREATMENTS, FUMIGATION, OR ANY OTHER METHOD OF  EXTERMINATION  BY
AN EXTERMINATOR, provided provisions therefor cannot otherwise be made;
  S  2.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  1 of section 303 of the social
services law, as amended by chapter 482 of the laws of 1975, is  amended
to read as follows:
  (a) Replacement or repair, as the case may be, of clothing, furniture,
food,  fuel  and  shelter;  (including  repairs  to homes owned by aged,
blind, and  disabled  persons  and  temporary  shelter  until  necessary
repairs  are completed or replacement shelter is secured), provided such
clothing, furniture, food, fuel or shelter was lost or rendered  useless
as  a  result  of  burglary, theft or vandalism, or as a result of fire,
flood or other similar catastrophe which could not have  been  [forseen]
FORESEEN by such person, and was not under his control, OR AS THE RESULT
OF  A  BEDBUG  INFESTATION  THAT CANNOT BE CONTROLLED THROUGH THE USE OF
PESTICIDES, TREATMENTS, FUMIGATION, OR ANY OTHER METHOD OF EXTERMINATION
BY AN EXTERMINATOR. All such losses shall  have  been  reported  to  and
appropriately  verified  by  local  officials before such replacement or
repair;
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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

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