Senate Bill S4831

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to public assistance employment programs

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  • 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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2015-S4831 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§330, 332, 341, 342, 332-b, 335-b & 336, Soc Serv L

2015-S4831 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to public assistance employment programs; amends requirements for work participation.

2015-S4831 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S4831 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4831

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 20, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  CARLUCCI -- (at request of the Office of Temporary
  and Disability Assistance) -- 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  definition
  of and the social services districts' engagement of a "volunteer"; the
  time  period to request conciliation for the public assistance employ-
  ment program; the employment  sanctions  for  a  member  of  a  public
  assistance  household  which  includes  a minor child; the time period
  within which an individual must produce  required  medical  documenta-
  tion; the social services districts' referrals to licensed health care
  practitioners; the authority to continue an assigned work activity for
  a  work  limited individual pending re-evaluation; and amending refer-
  ences to federal work  participation  rates  and  reporting  hours  of
  participation in certain work activities to be consistent with federal
  requirements

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 330 of the social services law, as
amended by section 148 of part B of chapter 436 of the laws of 1997,  is
amended,  subdivision  5 is renumbered subdivision 6, and a new subdivi-
sion 5 is added to read a follows:
  4. "Participant" shall mean an applicant for or  recipient  of  public
assistance  who  volunteers  for  or  is required AND IS ASSIGNED BY THE
DISTRICT to participate in work activities as provided in this title.
  5. "VOLUNTEER" SHALL MEAN AN APPLICANT  FOR  OR  RECIPIENT  OF  PUBLIC
ASSISTANCE WHO IS EXEMPT FROM MANDATORY PARTICIPATION IN WORK ACTIVITIES
AND  WHO  ELECTS  TO PARTICIPATE IN A WORK ACTIVITY OR AN INDIVIDUAL WHO
ELECTS TO PARTICIPATE BEYOND THE EXTENT REQUIRED BY THE DISTRICT. IN ALL
INSTANCES, A WORK ACTIVITY ASSIGNMENT MUST BE  APPROVED  BY  THE  SOCIAL
SERVICES DISTRICT CONSISTENT WITH THE INDIVIDUAL'S ASSESSMENT.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09603-01-5

              

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