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Assembly Bill A9079

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to responsibility for public assistance and care in a county social services district

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2013-A9079 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง69, Soc Serv L

2013-A9079 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to responsibility for public assistance and care in a county social services district.

2013-A9079 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  9079

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 12, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced by 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 responsibility
  for public assistance and care in a county social services district

  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 or by any other provision
of this chapter.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11755-01-3

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