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Assembly Bill A4655

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Prohibits recovery of assistance properly paid as permitted where a recipient or former recipient of such assistance was required to participate in a work experience

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2017-A4655 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Social Services
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §336-c, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A9232
2015-2016: A1342

2017-A4655 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that a social services official may not recover assistance properly paid as permitted where a recipient or former recipient of such assistance was required to participate in a work experience program without first crediting against such recovery the number of hours that such person actually participated in a work experience program multiplied by the higher of the applicable state or federal minimum wage.

2017-A4655 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4655
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 3, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. TITUS, HOOPER, JAFFEE, COOK, GOTTFRIED, BUCHWALD,
   CRESPO,  ROSENTHAL, M. G. MILLER, RIVERA, CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by
   -- M. of A. GLICK, MOSLEY -- read once and referred to  the  Committee
   on Social Services
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to work experience

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 336-c of the social  services  law  is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
   5.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  PROVISION  OF  LAW TO THE CONTRARY, A SOCIAL
 SERVICES OFFICIAL MAY NOT RECOVER PUBLIC  ASSISTANCE  PROPERLY  PAID  AS
 PERMITTED  UNDER  SECTIONS  ONE  HUNDRED  FOUR,  ONE HUNDRED FOUR-B, ONE
 HUNDRED SIX, ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE-R AND SUBDIVISION THREE  OF  SECTION
 ONE  HUNDRED  FIFTY-EIGHT OF THIS CHAPTER OR ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS
 TITLE, WHERE A RECIPIENT OR FORMER  RECIPIENT  OF  SUCH  ASSISTANCE  WAS
 REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE IN A WORK EXPERIENCE PROGRAM UNDER THIS SECTION,
 WITHOUT  FIRST  CREDITING AGAINST SUCH RECOVERY THE NUMBER OF HOURS THAT
 SUCH PERSON ACTUALLY PARTICIPATED IN A WORK  EXPERIENCE  PROGRAM  MULTI-
 PLIED BY THE HIGHER OF THE APPLICABLE STATE OR FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE.
   §  2.  Effective  immediately,  the office of temporary and disability
 assistance shall promulgate  rules  and  regulations,  and  conduct  any
 requisite training necessary for the implementation of this act.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02629-01-7

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