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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Jan 23, 2023 |
referred to social services |
Senate Bill S2512
2023-2024 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) 13th Senate District
Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Social Services Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2023-S2512 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Social Services
- Law Section:
- Social Services Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §131-a, Soc Serv L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2019-2020:
S5753
2021-2022: S4395
2023-S2512 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Sets the standards of monthly need for persons and families who receive temporary housing assistance and three meals per day or reside in a shelter for adults that provides three meals per day, shelter for families that provides three meals per day or a public home that provides three meals per day.
2023-S2512 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S2512 SPONSOR: RAMOS TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the social services law, in relation to the standards of monthly need for persons in receipt of public assistance PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: To provide a long overdue increase in the needs allowance provided to individuals and families residing in homeless shelters. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:. Section 1 adds a new subdivision 6 to Section 131-a of the social services law to require social services districts to provide a personal needs allowance to individuals and families living in shelters that provide three meals a day, and includes a schedule which sets the allow- ance based on the number of persons in the household. Section 2 is the effective date.
2023-S2512 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2512 2023-2024 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 23, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RAMOS -- 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 standards of monthly need for persons in receipt of public assistance THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 131-a of the social services law is amended by adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows: 6. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, SOCIAL SERVICES OFFI- CIALS SHALL, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION, PROVIDE PUBLIC ASSISTANCE TO PERSONS AND FAMILIES WHO RECEIVE TEMPORARY HOUSING ASSISTANCE AND THREE MEALS PER DAY OR RESIDE IN A SHELTER FOR ADULTS THAT PROVIDES THREE MEALS PER DAY, SHELTER FOR FAMILIES THAT PROVIDES THREE MEALS PER DAY, OR A PUBLIC HOME THAT PROVIDES THREE MEALS PER DAY AND DETERMINED TO BE ELIGIBLE BY THE APPLICATION OF THE STANDARD OF NEED PRESCRIBED BY THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION, LESS ANY AVAILABLE INCOME OR RESOURCES WHICH ARE NOT REQUIRED TO BE DISRE- GARDED BY OTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS CHAPTER, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING SCHEDULE: NUMBER OF PERSONS IN HOUSEHOLD ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX $144 $238 $322 $419 $520 $603 FOR EACH ADDITIONAL ELIGIBLE NEEDY PERSON IN THE HOUSEHOLD THERE SHALL BE AN ADDITIONAL ALLOWANCE OF EIGHTY-FIVE DOLLARS MONTHLY. § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April in the year next succeeding the year in which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06086-01-3
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