Senate Bill S4706

2023-2024 Legislative Session

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

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Current 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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2023-S4706 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Social Services
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Add §95-b, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S6991
2017-2018: S4525
2019-2020: S2237
2021-2022: S3421

2023-S4706 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2023-S4706 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S4706 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4706
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 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:
   § 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 TWENTY-FOUR, 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.
   §  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.
                                                            LBD09527-01-3

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