Senate Bill S6991

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to the distribution of food stamp applications to emergency feeding programs

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Social Services Committee

  • 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-S6991 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Social Services
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง95-b, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S4525
2019-2020: S2237
2021-2022: S3421
2023-2024: S4706

2015-S6991 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the distribution of food stamp applications to emergency feeding programs.

2015-S6991 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S6991 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6991

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             March 14, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services

AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the distribution
  of food stamp applications to emergency feeding programs

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

  Section  1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
95-b to read as follows:
  S 95-B. FOOD STAMP APPLICATIONS AT EMERGENCY FEEDING PROGRAMS. 1.  THE
COMMISSIONER  SHALL ARRANGE FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF APPLICATIONS FOR THE
FOOD STAMP PROGRAM TO ALL STATE-FUNDED EMERGENCY FEEDING  PROGRAMS.  FOR
PURPOSES  OF  THIS  SECTION,  "EMERGENCY  FEEDING  PROGRAM" MEANS A FOOD
PANTRY OR SOUP KITCHEN.
  2. BEGINNING JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND SEVENTEEN, AND ON  THE  FIRST
BUSINESS DAY OF EACH SUCCEEDING CALENDAR QUARTER THEREAFTER, THE COMMIS-
SIONER  SHALL  SUBMIT A REPORT TO THE GOVERNOR AND THE LEGISLATURE INDI-
CATING THE EMERGENCY FEEDING PROGRAMS TO WHICH IT  DISTRIBUTED  APPLICA-
TIONS  IN  THE  PRIOR  CALENDAR  QUARTER  AND THE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS
DISTRIBUTED TO EACH EMERGENCY FEEDING PROGRAM.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD13537-01-6

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