NY State Senate Bill 2025-S184

Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Feb 04, 2025	reported and committed to finance
Jan 08, 2025	referred to social services

Votes

- Feb 4, 2025 - Social Services Committee Vote
  S184
  
  6
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  1
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Social Services Committee Vote: Feb 4, 2025
      
      aye (6)
      
      Cleare
      
      Felder
      
      Kavanagh
      
      Persaud
      
      Serrano
      
      Weik
      
      aye wr (1)
      
      Murray

2025-S184 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A2152
Current Committee:: Senate Finance
Law Section:: Social Services Law
Laws Affected:: Add §131-y, amd §131-a, Soc Serv L

2025-S184 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a full year youth and young adult employment immersion program under the office of temporary and disability assistance for persons aged sixteen to twenty-four who have an income below two hundred sixty-five percent of the federal poverty line.

2025-S184 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S184

SPONSOR: PERSAUD
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the social services law, in relation to establishing a
full year youth and young adult employment immersion program

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

This legislation would establish a year-round youth employment program
wherein 16-24 year olds who have not yet completed post-secondary educa-
tion work full time and develop skills on the job.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 establishes a new section 131-Y of the Social Services Law
entitled Youth Employment Immersion Program.

Section 2 directs the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance to
stand up a Youth Employment Immersion Program, establishes eligibility
criteria and sets out basic requirements. Subsections establish program

duration, permit retention subsidies payable to employers, establish
minimum outreach criteria and set compensation at 265% of Federal Pover-
ty.

Section 3 provides for an immediate effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Building on the success of a statewide Summer Youth Employment Program,
which is limited to summer months, a year-round Youth Employment Immer-
sion Program would employ youth and young adults who may not have
completed high school or college and help them build transferrable work
skills in the public, nonprofit or private sector.  Young people who
have not completed college or high school are increasingly less likely
to earn sufficient wages to establish self-sufficiency and are increas-
ingly likely to remain trapped in poverty. A year-round employment
program that pays greater than minimum wage will assist young New York-
ers acquire valuable on-the-job experience with the possibility of
achieving sustained employment.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New legislation.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

To be determined, subject to appropriation.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.

2025-S184 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    184
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. PERSAUD -- 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  establishing  a
   full year youth and young adult employment immersion program

   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
 131-y to read as follows:
   § 131-Y.  YOUTH  EMPLOYMENT  IMMERSION PROGRAM. 1. FOR THE PURPOSES OF
 THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   (A) "OFFICE" MEANS THE OFFICE OF TEMPORARY AND DISABILITY ASSISTANCE.
   (B) "PROGRAM" MEANS THE YOUTH EMPLOYMENT IMMERSION PROGRAM ESTABLISHED
 UNDER THIS SECTION.
   (C) "ELIGIBLE YOUTHS AND YOUNG ADULTS"  MEANS  ECONOMICALLY  DISADVAN-
 TAGED  STATE  RESIDENTS  WHO ARE BETWEEN THE AGES OF SIXTEEN AND TWENTY-
 FOUR WHOM HAVE NOT COMPLETED POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION.
   2. THE OFFICE SHALL ESTABLISH A YOUTH  EMPLOYMENT  IMMERSION  PROGRAM.
 THE PROGRAM SHALL BE ADMINISTERED BY THE LOCAL SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICTS
 WITH  SUPERVISION AND REGULATION BY THE OFFICE. THE PROGRAM SHALL BE FOR
 ELIGIBLE YOUTHS AND YOUNG ADULTS WHICH SHALL INCLUDE:
   (A) UP TO TWENTY PERCENT OF AN ELIGIBLE YOUTH OR  YOUNG  ADULT'S  TIME
 WITH  THE  PROGRAM  BEING  SPENT  ON EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT READINESS,
 INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO:
   (I) ATTENDING A HIGH SCHOOL EQUIVALENCY PROGRAM;
   (II) ATTENDING PROGRAMS WHICH TEACH WORKFORCE READINESS, SKILL  DEVEL-
 OPMENT, FINANCIAL LITERACY, OR DIGITAL LITERACY;
   (III) EARNING A CERTIFICATION OR LICENSE; OR
   (IV) BEING PROVIDED WITH JOB PLACEMENT AND RETENTION SERVICES; AND
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00868-01-5
 S. 184                              2

 
   (B) AT LEAST EIGHTY PERCENT OF AN ELIGIBLE YOUTH OR YOUNG ADULT'S TIME
 WITH  THE  PROGRAM  BEING  SPENT ENGAGING IN PAID EMPLOYMENT THAT BUILDS
 TRANSFERABLE SKILLS.
   3.  THE PROGRAM SHALL PERMIT ELIGIBLE YOUTHS AND YOUNG ADULTS TO APPLY
 FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE PROGRAM FOR A  PERIOD  OF  ONE  YEAR  WITH  THE
 OPTION  OF  RE-APPLYING  TO EXTEND THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE PROGRAM BY
 ONE YEAR UNTIL THEY ARE NO LONGER ELIGIBLE.
   4. THE PROGRAM MAY PROVIDE EMPLOYERS WITH SUBSIDIES OF UP TO ONE THIRD
 OF THE GROSS WAGES FOR UP TO ONE YEAR FOR THE HIRING OF A PARTICIPANT IN
 THE PROGRAM.
   5. THE PROGRAM SHALL PERFORM OUTREACH TO  ELIGIBLE  YOUTHS  AND  YOUNG
 ADULTS  AT: HIGH SCHOOL EQUIVALENCY PROGRAMS; HIGH SCHOOLS, SPECIFICALLY
 REACHING OUT TO STUDENTS WHO DO NOT HAVE  PLANS  AFTER  GRADUATION;  AND
 PUBLIC  ASSISTANCE WORK READINESS PROGRAMS. THE PROGRAM SHALL ALSO REACH
 OUT TO YOUTHS AND YOUNG ADULTS WHO ARE BEING RELEASED  BY  THE  CRIMINAL
 JUSTICE SYSTEM OR NON-SECURE PLACEMENT PROGRAMS.
   6. PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS SHALL BE COMPENSATED FOR EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION
 AND  EMPLOYMENT  READINESS  COMPONENTS  AT  A  RATE EQUAL TO TWO HUNDRED
 SIXTY-FIVE PERCENT OF THE FEDERAL POVERTY LINE.
   § 2. Subparagraph (ix) of paragraph (a) of subdivision  8  of  section
 131-a  of the social services law, as added by section 1 of subpart D of
 part XX of chapter 55 of the  laws  of  2020,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   (ix)  all of the income derived from participation in the summer youth
 employment program  OR  YOUTH  EMPLOYMENT  IMMERSION  PROGRAM,  provided
 however,  that such income shall be exempt only for an individual who is
 not older than age twenty-four at the time of enrollment in  the  summer
 youth  employment program OR YOUTH EMPLOYMENT IMMERSION PROGRAM and such
 disregard must be applied for the length  of  the  individual's  partic-
 ipation in such program.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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Senate Bill S184

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee

Feb 4, 2025 - Social Services Committee Vote

Social Services Committee Vote: Feb 4, 2025

2025-S184 (ACTIVE) - Details

2025-S184 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2025-S184 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S184 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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Sponsored By

Roxanne J. Persaud

Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee

2025-S184 (ACTIVE) - Details

2025-S184 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2025-S184 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S184 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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