Assembly Bill A10744

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  10744

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 18, 2012
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Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cahill) --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services

AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation  to  requiring  the
  county  social  services district to be responsible for public assist-
  ance and care and in relation to making technical correction  thereto;
  and  to  repeal  paragraph  i of subdivision 3 of section 233-a of the
  county law relating thereto

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

  Section  1.  Section  69  of  the  social  services law, as amended by
section 66 of part B of chapter 436 of the laws of 1997, is  amended  to
read as follows:
  S 69. Responsibility for public assistance and care in a county social
services  district. The responsibility for the  administration of public
assistance and care in a county social services district and the expense
thereof [may either] SHALL  be  borne  by  the  county  social  services
district  [or  be divided between such district and the towns and cities
therein as hereinafter provided].
  [1. Unless otherwise determined by the board of supervisors as herein-
after provided, each town  shall  be  responsible  for  the  expense  of
providing  safety  net  assistance for persons residing or found in such
town.
  2. Unless otherwise determined by the board of supervisors as  herein-
after  provided,  a  city  forming  a  part  of a county social services
district shall be responsible for the expense of   providing safety  net
assistance for any person residing or found in its territory.
  3.]  A  county  social  services district shall be responsible for the
expense of providing all assistance and care  for  persons  residing  or
found in a town or city in its territory [for which such town or city is
not responsible under the provisions of subdivisions one and two of this
section].    The expense of such assistance and care granted by a county
social services district shall be subject to reimbursement by the  state
in the cases provided for by section sixty-two OF THIS ARTICLE or by any
other provision of this chapter.

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

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  S  2.  Paragraph i of subdivision 3 of section 233-a of the county law
is REPEALED.
  S  3. Section 57 of the social services law, as amended by chapter 863
of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as follows:
  S 57.  Cities in county social services districts.   Each city,  other
than the city of New York, shall form part of the county social services
district  of the county in which it is situated and shall not assume any
powers and responsibilities for the administration or expense of  public
assistance  and care, in addition to those specified in [subdivision two
of] section sixty-nine, except pursuant to the  provisions  of  sections
seventy-four and seventy-four-a of this chapter.
  S  4.  Paragraph  (d)  of  subdivision  2  of section 73 of the social
services law, as amended by chapter 863 of the laws of 1977, is  amended
to read as follows:
  (d)    Unless  and until a city in the county social services district
shall confirm the resolution of the board of supervisors  in  accordance
with  the  provisions  of paragraph (a), the responsibility of such city
for assistance and care in its territory shall not be affected  by  such
resolution,  and  the  city  shall be governed by the provisions of this
chapter and other laws relating to cities which form part  of  a  county
social  services district and to city social services officers[; and the
city shall continue to be responsible for the cost of public  assistance
and  care under the provisions of subdivision two of section sixty-nine,
except as otherwise provided in title three-a of this article.  The cost
of any assistance and care given to local charges residing or  found  in
such  city,  paid  by  the  county  social  services  district under the
provisions of subdivision three of section sixty-nine, shall be a charge
on the county social services district].
  S 5. This act shall take effect immediately.