Assembly Bill A1918

2019-2020 Legislative Session

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

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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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2019-A1918 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Social Services
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §336-a, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A8586
2017-2018: A974
2021-2022: A3416
2023-2024: A3253

2019-A1918 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows college coursework to be credited as a work activity which may be used toward fulfilling the employment requirements for public assistance benefits under certain conditions.

2019-A1918 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1918
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 18, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. RICHARDSON, LAVINE, SIMON, NIOU, ORTIZ, RAIA,
   DE LA ROSA -- read once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Social
   Services
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  social services law, in relation to access to a
   college education by public assistance recipients who are  subject  to
   work participation requirements

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 336-a of the social services  law,  as  amended  by
 section  148 of part B of chapter 436 of the laws of 1997, subdivision 1
 as amended by chapter 275 of the laws of 2017, is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   §  336-a.  Educational  activities. 1. Social services districts shall
 make available vocational educational training  and  educational  activ-
 ities.    Such  activities  may include but need not be limited to, high
 school education or education designed to prepare a  participant  for  a
 high  school  equivalency  certificate,  basic  and  remedial education,
 education in English proficiency, education or a course  of  instruction
 in  financial literacy and personal finance that includes instruction on
 household cash management techniques, career advice  to  obtain  a  well
 paying  and  secure  job, using checking and savings accounts, obtaining
 and utilizing short and long term credit, securing a loan or other  long
 term financing arrangement for high cost items, participation in a high-
 er  education  course of instruction or trade school, and no more than a
 total of four years of post-secondary education (or the part-time equiv-
 alent). Educational activities pursuant to this section may  be  offered
 with  any  of  the  following  providers  which  meet the performance or
 assessment standards established in regulations by the commissioner  for
 such  providers:  a community college, licensed trade school, registered
 business school, or a two-year or four-year college; provided,  however,
 that  such  post-secondary education must be necessary to the attainment

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

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