BILL NUMBER: S5759A

SPONSOR: BRISPORT
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the social services law, in relation to exempting
certain income and resources provided to persons enrolled in certain
pilot programs with direct cash transfers in determining eligibility for
public assistance benefits

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section one of the bill amends the social services law by adding a new
section 2 131-y.

Section two of the bill sets forth the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

New York has a high population of runaway and homeless youth. At high
risk for sexual or other exploitation, aggressive interventions should
              

be experimented and employed to help stabilize this population. Chapin
Hall at the University of Chicago has partnered with the City of New
York and private and nonprofit stakeholders to study the impacts of
providing runaway and homeless youth direct financial assistance, also
known as cash transfers, coupled with access to voluntary supportive
services to determine the impact that such cash transfers might have on
their lives.

The pilot program will provide thirty homeless youth with monthly cash
transfers for a year along with access to supportive services, such as
case management, and compare outcomes for this population against
outcomes for runaway and homeless youth who are not provided with cash
transfers. In this way, the research will help determine the efficacy of
providing homeless young people with access to cash assistance.

This legislation will ensure that the money received as part of this
research pilot program, and any similar research, cannot be considered
as income for the purposes of determining eligibility for public assist-
ance benefits. These young people, who are disproportionately black and
brown and identify as LGBTQ+, must not have their access to life saving
public assistance disrupted as a result of their participation in this
short-term research project.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have
become a law. Effective immediately, the adoption, amendment and/or
repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
this act on its effective date is authorized to be made on or before
such date.

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S5759B

SPONSOR: BRISPORT
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the social services law, in relation to exempting
certain income and resources provided to persons enrolled in certain
pilot programs with direct cash transfers in determining eligibility for
public assistance benefits; and providing for the repeal of such
provisions upon expiration thereof

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section one of the bill amends paragraph (a) of subdivision 8 of section
131a of the social services law by adding a new subparagraph (x).

Section two of the bill sets forth the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

New York has a high population of runaway and homeless youth. At high
              

risk for sexual or other exploitation, aggressive interventions should
be experimented and employed to help stabilize this population. Chapin
Hall at the University of Chicago has partnered with the City of New
York and private and nonprofit stakeholders to study the impacts of
providing runaway and homeless youth direct financial assistance, also
known as cash transfers, coupled with access to voluntary supportive
services to determine the impact that such cash transfers might have on
their lives.

The pilot program will provide thirty homeless youth with monthly cash
transfers for a year along with access to supportive services, such as
case management, and compare outcomes for this population against
outcomes for runaway and homeless youth who are not provided with cash
transfers. In this way, the research will help determine the efficacy of
providing homeless young people with access to cash assistance.

This legislation will ensure that the money received as part of this
research pilot program, and any similar research, cannot be considered
as income for the purposes of determining eligibility for public assist-
ance benefits. These young people, who are disproportionately black and
brown and identify as LGBTQ+, must not have their access to life saving
public assistance disrupted as a result of their participation in this
short-term research project.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have
become a law. Effective immediately, the adoption, amendment and/or
repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
this act on its effective date is authorized to be made on or before
such date.