Senate Bill S6665

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Directs the office of temporary and disability assistance, in its plan for the low-income home energy assistance program, to utilize the maximum reductions in determining income eligibility

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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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2013-S6665 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §97, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
S1981

2013-S6665 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the office of temporary and disability assistance, in its plan for the low-income home energy assistance program, to utilize the maximum reduction in determining income eligibility.

2013-S6665 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S6665 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  6665

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 25, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  YOUNG  -- 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  low-income
  home energy assistance program

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 97 of the social services law,  as
added by chapter 785 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows:
  1.  The  [department] OFFICE OF TEMPORARY AND DISABILITY ASSISTANCE is
authorized to develop and submit to the  governor  the  application  and
plan  required  by title twenty-six of the federal omnibus budget recon-
ciliation act of nineteen hundred eighty-one, and to amend and  to  take
whatever  other  action  may  be  necessary  with  respect to such plan,
including, but not limited to, acting for the state in any  negotiations
relative  to  the  submission of such plan, and making such arrangements
and taking such action, not inconsistent with law, as may be required to
submit, implement, administer and operate such plan, and to  secure  for
the  state  the  benefits available under such act.  FOR PLANS SUBMITTED
AFTER JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN, SUCH  OFFICE  SHALL  EVALUATE
INCOME  ELIGIBILITY  PURSUANT TO A DEFINITION OF NET INCOME, OR PURSUANT
TO A DEFINITION OF ADJUSTED GROSS INCOME WHICH INCORPORATES GROSS INCOME
REDUCTIONS TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT CONSISTENT WITH FEDERAL PLAN  ELIGIBIL-
ITY REQUIREMENTS.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD13778-01-4


              

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