Social Services

NY - Senator Roxanne J. Persaud (U)

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Committee Chair

NY - Senator Cordell Cleare (U)

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Member

NY - Senator Dean Murray (U)

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Ranking Member

NY - Senator Simcha Felder (U)

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Member

NY - Senator Zellnor Myrie (U)

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Member

NY - Senator Brian Kavanagh (U)

Title:

Member

NY - Senator José M. Serrano (U)

Title:

Member

NY - Senator Alexis Weik (U)

Title:

Member

NY - S799 Extends the period given to certain applicants for public assistance benefits to request a fair hearing

NY - S782 Imposes a one year residency requirement for eligibility for medical assistance

NY - S588 Relates to home stability support supplement programs

NY - S15 Authorizes certain shelters to be reimbursed for any payment differential for housing a single individual in a room intended for double occupancy

NY - S183 Relates to assisting persons with medically diagnosed HIV infection; repealer

NY - S471 Relates to assistance for burial arrangements

NY - S472 Directs the department of social services to establish a centralized homelessness crisis response data system

NY - S535 Relates to enacting the intergenerational poverty mitigation act

NY - S29 Relates to requiring care providers to provide information in cases of suspected domestic violence

NY - S207 Relates to programs, supports and services for individuals being released from state and local correctional facilities

NY - S395 Directs the New York state interagency task force on human trafficking to investigate connections between social media and human trafficking

NY - S922 Relates to certain payments for the financial support of a foster child

NY - S1567 Requires the development of mental illness training for providers of temporary housing

NY - S1631 Relates to making certain housing programs available regardless of immigration status

NY - S1872 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 - S1917 Requires the Department of Homeless Services to notify the affected community board prior to locating transitional housing for the homeless

NY - S1998 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 - S2143 Relates to the creation of a self-sufficiency standard study

NY - S2144 Exempts income earned by persons from certain job training or adult education programs from the determination of need for public assistance programs

NY - S2503 Establishes a co-navigation services program for persons who are deaf-blind

NY - S2496 Requires social services districts to automatically re-enroll eligible persons or households for the low-income home energy assistance program

NY - S2542 Relates to training and education for sustainable wage jobs and traditional and nontraditional employment in public assistance employment programs

NY - S2514 Requires quarterly inspections of homeless shelters

NY - S2512 Relates to the standards of monthly need for persons in receipt of public assistance

NY - A2176 Relates to reporting of youth placed in foster care settings and recruitment of foster parents and repeals section two of chapter eleven of the laws of two thousand twenty-one

NY - S2705 Relates to resource exemptions for applicants for public assistance programs

NY - S2753 Relates to establishing state disaster emergency requirements for homeless shelters

NY - S2915 Provides for training and education for sustainable wage jobs and traditional and nontraditional employment in public assistance employment programs

NY - S2982 Requires shelter allowances be set at up to one hundred percent of the fair market rent for the local social services district

NY - S2944 Prohibits requiring that an individual have a court proceeding initiated against him or her in order to qualify for a rent arrears grant or ongoing rental assistance

NY - S3049 Relates to eliminating rent for homeless shelters in N.Y. city; repealer

NY - S3070 Implements automatic market rate increases for child care assistance

NY - S3069 Enacts into law major components of legislation which are necessary to implement the New York healthy incentive program

NY - S3359 Exempts amounts received from any financial settlement for childhood sexual abuse for determining eligibility for or amount of benefits

NY - S3414 Eliminates rent for homeless shelters; repealer

NY - S4081 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 - S4375 Relates to employee human trafficking recognition training

NY - S4519 Eliminates asset limits in calculating the amount of benefits for any household under any public assistance program

NY - S4537 Establishes community residences for victims of domestic violence and their family or household members

NY - S4546 Establishes an emergency heating energy assistance program benefit

NY - S4548 Provides for the automated identification of affordability program participants

NY - S4561 Provides internet access to all individuals residing in temporary housing

NY - S4706 Relates to the distribution of food stamp applications to emergency feeding programs

NY - S4736 Authorizes the reissuance of certain benefits in instances of fraud or theft of benefits

NY - S4780 Relates to additional state payment assistance

NY - S4888 Relates to recovery of overpayment of certain assistance; repealer

NY - S4924 Prohibits requiring parents or caretakers to earn a minimum wage or work a minimum number of hours to be eligible for child care assistance

NY - S5270 Relates to increasing the standards of monthly need and home energy grant amounts for persons in receipt of public assistance

NY - S5326 Increases the state reimbursement rate for preventative child protective services

NY - S5644 Relates to the transparency and quality of care of operators of adult care facilities

NY - S5672 Relates to providing adequate access to information for certain individuals

NY - A5515 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 - S5848 Relates to the provision of emergency shelter for victims and alleged victims of domestic violence during certain declarations of a state disaster emergency

NY - S5897 Relates to reporting of youth placed in foster care settings and recruitment of foster parents and repeals section two of chapter eleven of the laws of two thousand twenty-one

NY - S5915 Provides for the distribution of informational materials on economic abuse

NY - S5926 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 - S6037 Relates to recipients of public assistance who lack appropriate child care

NY - S6181 Removes the requirement that rent arrears be repaid

NY - S6424 Expands the membership of the interagency task force on trafficking in persons

NY - S6430 Exempts certain income for the purpose of determining aid provided pursuant to public assistance programs

NY - S6458 Relates to certain calls received by child protective services

NY - S6696 Allows college coursework to be credited as a work activity which may be used toward fulfilling the employment requirements for public assistance benefits

NY - S6944 Extends current exemptions of income and resources for public assistance programs

NY - S7009 Prohibits hotels and homeless shelters from displacing vulnerable persons in favor of non-United States citizens or non-lawful permanent residents of the United States

NY - A7360 Relates to the composition of the interagency task force on human trafficking

NY - A7361 Extends current exemptions of income and resources for public assistance programs

NY - S7185 Requires the office for the prevention of domestic violence to conduct a study on domestic violence in the transgender community

NY - S7193 Authorizes a victim of domestic violence to apply to remove the violent felony offender from deed of co-owned real property

NY - S7204 Directs the commissioner of the office of children and family services to establish a consumer directed childcare pilot program in certain counties

NY - S7259 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 - S7451 Relates to the composition of the interagency task force on human trafficking

NY - S7789 Relates to eligibility for the temporary assistance to needy families block grant program, safety net assistance and medical assistance for certain noncitizens

NY - S7663 Establishes a state SNAP minimum benefit program

NY - S7692 Establishes a task force to examine, evaluate and determine the feasibility of establishing a state-funded version of SNAP

NY - S7629 Relates to expanding eligibility for the cooling assistance component of the home energy assistance program

NY - S7823 Requires the implementation of an electronic benefit transfer system

NY - S7830 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 - S7929 Relates to payment for rapid whole genome sequencing

NY - S7991 Relates to the unearned income of a child

NY - S8223 Makes migrant youth under the age of 25 eligible to receive housing vouchers under the family homelessness and eviction prevention supplement ("FHEPS") program

NY - S8374 Removes the federal poverty level requirement for recipients where it concerns the one-time disregard of earned income

NY - S8493 Prohibits the imposition of limits on the length of stay at homeless shelters and emergency congregate housing

NY - S8552 Requires food distributors that accept SNAP benefits to establish a mechanism to apply coupons to purchases made by eligible recipients of SNAP benefits

NY - S8622 Relates to the payment of shelter and rent arrears

NY - A9269 Requires electronic benefit transfer systems to include fraud detection for unauthorized transactions

NY - S8652 Relates to emergency rental assistance

NY - S8655 Relates to the standards of monthly need for persons in receipt of public assistance

NY - S8662 Requires electronic benefit transfer systems to include fraud detection for unauthorized transactions

NY - S8767 Increases the amount certain individuals are eligible for when receiving enhanced residential care

NY - A9522 Relates to automated identification of OTDA assistance program participants

NY - S8917 Requires any website or mobile application associated with an electronic benefit transfer system to be offered in multiple languages

NY - S8918 Requires electronic benefit transfer systems to include automatic credit or debit card cancellation when fraudulent activity has been reported

NY - S9015 Relates to the establishment and modification of child support orders; requires the court to consider the specific circumstances of the parent

NY - S9100 Relates to automated identification of OTDA assistance program participants

NY - S9267 Relates to conciliation and non-compliance with public assistance employment; repealer

NY - S9296 Establishes an EBT card replacement program

NY - S9343 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 - S9358 Requires the New York state office for the prevention of domestic violence to establish trauma-informed standards for domestic violence abuse intervention programs

NY - A10230 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 - S9484 Requires the department of social services to issue EMV-compliant or similar electronic benefit transfer cards and process all electronic benefit transfer system transactions using dynamic data authentication

NY - S9649 Relates to the study of the current prevalence of SNAP/EBT benefit fraud

NY - S9629 Establishes the housing people and animals together grant program