Social Services

NY - Assemblymember Maritza Davila (U)

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NY - Assemblymember Sam Berger (U)

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NY - Assemblymember Manny De Los Santos (U)

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NY - Assemblymember Simcha Eichenstein (U)

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NY - Assemblymember Phara Souffrant Forrest (U)

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NY - Assemblymember Steven Raga (U)

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NY - Assemblymember Kwani O'Pharrow (U)

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NY - Assemblymember Grace Lee (U)

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NY - Assemblymember Karines Reyes (U)

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NY - Assemblymember Tony Simone (U)

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NY - Assemblymember Matthew Simpson (U)

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NY - Assemblymember Michaelle C. Solages (U)

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NY - Assemblymember Claire Valdez (U)

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NY - A1530 Relates to services for victims of domestic violence; repealer

NY - A1507 Requires shelter allowances be set at up to one hundred percent of the fair market rent for the local social services district

NY - A1597 Establishes the baby bucks allowance

NY - A1501 Prohibits requiring that an individual have a court proceeding initiated against them in order to qualify for a rent arrears grant or ongoing rental assistance

NY - A1593 Relates to state assistance for food and vet expenses for guide dogs, hearing dogs and service dogs of individuals qualifying for social services; repealer

NY - A1503 Relates to making certain housing programs available regardless of immigration status

NY - A1504 Removes the requirement that rent arrears be repaid

NY - A2152 Establishes a full year youth and young adult employment immersion program

NY - A2171 Relates to providing adequate access to information for certain individuals

NY - A2109 Provides for self-attestation for victims of domestic violence

NY - A2134 Enacts the supportive housing modernization act

NY - A2188 Provides for training and education for sustainable wage jobs and traditional and nontraditional employment in public assistance employment programs

NY - A2061 Eliminates asset limits in calculating the amount of benefits for any household under any public assistance program

NY - A2332 Requires any website or mobile application associated with an electronic benefit transfer system to be offered in Chinese

NY - A2425 Increases the time frame for payments of certain expenses by adoptive parents

NY - A2424 Requires that recipients of public assistance benefits must be residents of the state for at least ninety days prior to applying for such benefits

NY - A2582 Provides for support and services for unaccompanied minors with no lawful immigration status

NY - A7270 Relates to the study of the current prevalence of SNAP/EBT benefit fraud

NY - A5742 Establishes an EBT card replacement program

NY - A5737 Requires food distributors that accept SNAP benefits to establish a mechanism to apply coupons to purchases made by eligible recipients of SNAP benefits

NY - A6028 Increases the personal needs allowance for residents of certain residential health care facilities

NY - S1281 Enacts into law major components of legislation which are necessary to implement the New York healthy incentive program

NY - A6995 Enacts the public benefits privacy act

NY - A6324 Relates to payment of burial expenses by local public welfare officials

NY - A6378 Reimburses counties who have purchased or will purchase Medicaid fraud detection software

NY - A6669 Relates to expanding eligibility for the cooling assistance component of the home energy assistance program

NY - A7833 Relates to workplace safety equipment for social services employees

NY - A7905 Relates to the composition of the interagency task force on human trafficking

NY - S1465 Requires the implementation of an electronic benefit transfer system

NY - A10363 Relates to access to educational activities by public assistance recipients who are subject to work participation requirements

NY - A108 Relates to the standards of monthly need for persons in receipt of public assistance

NY - A176 Provides eligibility for state or local public benefits regardless of immigration status

NY - A405 Relates to allowances for the costs of diapers

NY - A325 Relates to eligibility for the temporary assistance to needy families block grant program, safety net assistance and medical assistance for certain noncitizens

NY - A106 Relates to increasing the standards of monthly need and home energy grant amounts for persons in receipt of public assistance

NY - A501 Relates to the payment of shelter and rent arrears

NY - A481 Directs social services districts to contract with non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence to provide outreach and education in high schools

NY - A503 Makes migrant youth under the age of 25 eligible to receive housing vouchers under the family homelessness and eviction prevention supplement ("FHEPS") program

NY - A677 Relates to additional state payment assistance

NY - A658 Relates to requiring homeless shelters to keep an opioid antagonist on hand, have at least one trained employee on duty at all times, and develop a training plan for opioid overdoses

NY - A691 Relates to the unearned income of a child

NY - A683 Establishes an emergency heating energy assistance program benefit

NY - A743 Directs the social services district to take no action to establish paternity or a child support order when the applicant or recipient has established good cause to refuse to cooperate

NY - A699 Requires the implementation of an electronic benefit transfer system

NY - A712 Prohibits the imposition of limits on the length of stay at homeless shelters and emergency congregate housing

NY - A745 Eliminates rent for homeless shelters; repealer

NY - A821 Relates to the persons authorized to visit facilities operated by the department of social services or a social services district and homeless projects

NY - A823 Requires all state and private agencies with mandatory reporters of incidents involving vulnerable people to retrain all staff on reporting to a 9-1-1 operator and the county district attorney's office

NY - A2500 Relates to resource exemptions for applicants for public assistance programs

NY - A2572 Exempts income earned by persons from certain job training or adult education programs from the determination of need for public assistance programs

NY - A2544 Requires the office of temporary and disability assistance to establish a universal benefits form for individuals seeking public assistance

NY - A2567 Enacts into law major components of legislation which are necessary to implement the New York healthy incentive program

NY - A2542 Provides public assistance for home internet service

NY - A2714 Includes coverage for menstrual products under the supplemental nutrition assistance program

NY - A5311 Expands the membership of the interagency task force on trafficking in persons

NY - A4035 Creates caseload standards for adult protective services workers

NY - A4037 Adds certain human services programs to the designated human services programs eligible for a cost of living adjustment

NY - A4469 Relates to establishing state disaster emergency requirements for homeless shelters

NY - A4413 Relates to certain educational requirements for public assistance

NY - A4467 Relates to reimbursements for domestic violence services

NY - A4387 Requires the homestead exemption used in the calculation for public assistance to be the same as the homestead exemption under the civil practice law and rules

NY - A4416 Implements a healthy food initiative for beneficiaries of the supplemental nutrition assistance program

NY - A4407 Requires undocumented immigrants to submit to the same level of health background check and be vaccinated in order to use certain state resources

NY - A4456 Requires undocumented immigrants to submit to the same level of background checks as lawful immigrants in order to use certain state resources

NY - A4504 Increases the amount certain individuals are eligible for when receiving enhanced residential care

NY - A4502 Allows college coursework to be credited as a work activity which may be used toward fulfilling the employment requirements for public assistance benefits

NY - A4666 Requires a local social services district to accept or deny an application for public assistance no later than thirty days after the date of the application; repealer

NY - A4601 Relates to clarifying the definitions of vocational educational training and educational activities

NY - A5640 Relates to allowing for three forty-five day extensions of necessary and available emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence

NY - A5866 Relates to allowing public welfare officials to withhold payment of rent to landlords who owe delinquent tax liabilities

NY - A8584 Relates to a cost of living adjustment for human services programs

NY - A6729 Relates to educational materials pertaining to sexual health to individuals enrolled in Medicaid

NY - A7381 Establishes the 2-1-1 essential community services hotline system

NY - S180 Increases the amount certain individuals are eligible for when receiving enhanced residential care

NY - A8836 Relates to the establishment of a healthy birth grant demonstration program; excludes healthy birth grants from income for certain purposes

NY - S7943 Requires the office of temporary and disability assistance to make available skimming warning signs in various languages

NY - A8246 Allows for SNAP benefits to be used to purchase menstrual products

NY - A8197 Requires signage warning about EBT/SNAP skimming and mandates chip-enabled point-of-sale systems for SNAP transactions

NY - A10655 Requires all state and private agencies with mandatory reporters of incidents involving vulnerable people to retrain all staff on reporting to a 9-1-1 operator and the county district attorney's office

NY - A919 Requires electronic benefit transfer systems to allow for benefit recipients to provide certain services when fraud has been suspected or reported

NY - A918 Relates to automated identification of OTDA program participants for participation in utility corporation affordability programs for water service affordability

NY - A1065 Provides that before a person may receive public assistance benefits, they must submit to a drug test

NY - A1279 Exempts certain income for the purpose of determining aid provided pursuant to public assistance programs

NY - A1318 Establishes a state SNAP minimum benefit program

NY - A1693 Establishes the housing people and animals together grant program

NY - A1755 Provides internet access to all individuals residing in temporary housing

NY - A1846 Provides internet access and access to internet-enabled devices to recipients of public assistance and to adults and children in shelters and similar facilities

NY - A1878 Exempts IRAs and Roth IRAs in the calculation of household benefits under public assistance programs

NY - A1856 Requires the development of mental illness training for providers of temporary housing

NY - A1827 Requires the notification of individuals that certain work-study, internship, externship or other work placements meet the work requirements of title nine-B of the social services law

NY - A1817 Defines closed period of eligibility for purposes of certain supplemental security income and includes such time period in the eligibility requirements of such supplemental security income

NY - A2050 Requires the office of temporary and disability assistance promulgate regulations and create policies to encourage married adults or two adult households when determining the standard of need for eligibility

NY - A2048 Increases personal needs allowance amounts

NY - A1998 Requires recipients of public assistance benefits submit to pre-qualification drug screening and testing, random drug testing, reasonable suspicion drug testing and resumption of benefits drug testing

NY - A2497 Establishes a fiscal cliff task force to conduct a study on fiscal cliffs in the state's public assistance programs and to make recommendations related thereto

NY - A2538 Provides that applicants or recipients for food stamps shall not be subjected to finger imaging as a requirement of the food stamp program

NY - A2502 Relates to home stability support supplement programs

NY - A3093 Extends the period given to certain applicants for public assistance benefits to request a fair hearing

NY - A3264 Authorizes certain shelters to be reimbursed for any payment differential for housing a single individual in a room intended for double occupancy

NY - A3355 Relates to assisting persons with medically diagnosed HIV infection; repealer

NY - S1966 Requires social services districts to automatically re-enroll eligible persons or households for the low-income home energy assistance program

NY - A3578 Establishes a SNAP and cash assistance fraud victims compensation fund; appropriation

NY - A3489 Authorizes the reissuance of certain benefits in instances of fraud or theft of benefits

NY - S750 Requires electronic benefit transfer systems to allow for benefit recipients to provide certain services when fraud has been suspected or reported

NY - S766 Relates to automated identification of OTDA program participants for participation in utility corporation affordability programs for water service affordability

NY - A4058 Allows for the denial, suspension or discontinuance of public assistance or care where a person does not participate in three consecutive scheduled interviews with a social services official

NY - A4070 Establishes a user-friendly benefits cliff calculator tool

NY - A4123 Provides that schools, child day cares, day care centers, or community based organizations which support activities for children under the age of eighteen can not serve as a shelter for migrants

NY - A4311 Establishes a two generation pilot program

NY - A4340 Creates the incentivizing habitability opportunity program

NY - A4352 Relates to determination of public assistance eligibility

NY - A4365 Relates to conducting appeals, within the department of family assistance, by means of electronic communications systems conference with independent hearing officers

NY - A4317 Increases the federal poverty level requirement for recipients where it concerns the one-time disregard of earned income

NY - A4313 Establishes rental vouchers for working families

NY - A5020 Establishes a co-navigation services program for persons who are deaf-blind

NY - A5331 Enacts the HOPE pilot program; appropriation

NY - A5409 Requires local social services districts distribute shelter information specifically for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and gender non-conforming persons

NY - A5420 Requires menstrual products to be provided in drop-in centers, intake shelters and emergency congregate housing

NY - A5417 Creates a commission to reform public assistance benefits

NY - A6096 Requires quarterly inspections of homeless shelters

NY - A6448 Relates to conciliation and non-compliance with public assistance employment; repealer

NY - A6632 Establishes "SNAP for all", a state-funded supplemental nutrition assistance program to provide for the state's immigrant population

NY - A7543 Authorizes the reissuance of SNAP benefits in instances of fraud or theft of such benefits

NY - A8036 Requires commissioners of local social services districts to screen, apply for, and use and conserve federal benefits on behalf of children placed in foster care

NY - A7596 Limits the number of cases a foster care worker may have under his or her supervision at any one time to 16 cases

NY - A7585 Enacts the fair share for homeless shelters act

NY - A7655 Allows for SNAP benefits to be used to purchase menstrual products

NY - A8509 Relates to earned income contributions by homeless families receiving temporary housing assistance in Westchester county

NY - A8757 Establishes the "SNAP for students act"

NY - S7315 Allows for SNAP benefits to be used to purchase menstrual products

NY - S7612 Establishes a co-shelter toolkit

NY - S3189 Requires the office of temporary and disability assistance to make publicly available on its website information regarding waivers, rental supplement plans and shelter supplement plans

NY - S5505 Requires the development of mental illness training for providers of temporary housing

NY - A8375 Establishes a co-shelter toolkit

NY - A8376 Relates to employee human trafficking recognition training

NY - A8743 Relates to providing for certain procedures to be followed when there is a determination of suspected child abuse or neglect

NY - S181 Expands the membership of the interagency task force on trafficking in persons

NY - S2022 Exempts certain income for the purpose of determining aid provided pursuant to public assistance programs

NY - S913 Prohibits requiring that an individual have a court proceeding initiated against them in order to qualify for a rent arrears grant or ongoing rental assistance

NY - A8433 Extends current exemptions of income and resources for public assistance programs

NY - A8432 Extends provisions of law relating to enforcement and support obligations through the suspension of driving privileges

NY - A8443 Requires the office of temporary and disability assistance to make publicly available on its website information regarding waivers, rental supplement plans and shelter supplement plans

NY - A8938 Requires that two electronic benefit transfer credit or debit cards be available to certain households receiving special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children (WIC) benefits

NY - A9005 Establishing a waiver program allowing for longer stays at domestic violence shelters

NY - A9358 Establishes an electronic benefits replacement card program

NY - A9413 Relates to the ability of localities to use state funds to provide public benefits to non-citizens

NY - A868 Requires the office of temporary and disability assistance to provide an informational notice to supportive housing tenants

NY - S8750 Establishes a fiscal cliff task force to conduct a study on fiscal cliffs in the state's public assistance programs and to make recommendations related thereto

NY - A10143 Establishes a fiscal cliff task force to conduct a study on fiscal cliffs in the state's public assistance programs and to make recommendations related thereto

NY - A10213 Relates to regulatory penalties, fines, and/or revocation for small business