Senate Bill S6493

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to programs, supports and services for individuals being released from state and local correctional facilities

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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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2021-S6493 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7340
Current Committee:
Senate Social Services
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§158 & 209, Soc Serv L; amd §112, add §§500-q, 71-b & 11, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S8689, A10763
2023-2024: S207, A2461

2021-S6493 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for programs, supports and services for individuals being released from state and local correctional facilities to ensure that such persons receive mental health and substance use disorder services, educational needs and job readiness services and housing assistance.

2021-S6493 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S6493 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6493
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 3, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. BENJAMIN -- 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  and  the  correction  law,  in
   relation  to  programs,  supports  and  services for individuals being
   released from state and local correctional facilities

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 158 of the social services law, as
 amended  by  section 44 of part B of chapter 436 of the laws of 1997, is
 amended to read as follows:
   4. (A) Social services officials shall determine eligibility for safe-
 ty net assistance within forty-five days of receiving an application for
 safety net assistance. Such officials shall notify applicants of  safety
 net  assistance  about  the availability of assistance to meet emergency
 circumstances or to prevent eviction.
   (B) WHEN A  LOCAL  SOCIAL  SERVICES  DISTRICT  IS  IDENTIFIED  AS  THE
 DISTRICT  OF  RESIDENCE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL BEING RELEASED FROM A STATE OR
 LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, SUCH DISTRICT SHALL ACCEPT  AN  APPLICATION
 FOR SAFETY NET ASSISTANCE SIX MONTHS PRIOR TO SUCH INDIVIDUAL'S EARLIEST
 EXPECTED  RELEASE  DATE.    IN  THE  EVENT THE INDIVIDUAL IS NOT GRANTED
 PAROLE, HIS OR HER APPLICATION WILL BE  PLACED  ON  HOLD  STATUS  TO  BE
 RE-ACTIVATED  AND  GIVEN A PRIORITY RANK ONCE SUCH INDIVIDUAL IS GRANTED
 PAROLE AND AN OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE IS KNOWN. THIS SPECIAL STATUS  SHALL
 BE  DEFINED  BY  PROCESS COMPLETION OF THE APPLICATION BY THE RESPECTIVE
 DISTRICT OFFICE WITHIN THIRTY DAYS OF  RECEIVING  THE  OFFICIAL  RELEASE
 DATE.
   §  2.  Subparagraph  (iv) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section
 209 of the social services law, as amended by section 4  of  part  E  of
 chapter 57 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
   (iv)  is a resident of the state and is either a citizen of the United
 States or is not an alien who is or  would  be  ineligible  for  federal
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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