Assembly Bill A10763

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to programs, supports and services for individuals being released from state and local correctional facilities

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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-A10763 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8689
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§158 & 209, Soc Serv L; amd §112, add §§500-q & 71-b, Cor L; add §223-c, Pub Hous L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A7340, S6493, S8064
2023-2024: A2461, S207

2019-A10763 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for programs, supports and services for individuals being released from state and local correctional facilities to ensure that such persons receive mental health and substance use disorder services, educational needs and job readiness services and housing assistance.

2019-A10763 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10763
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 9, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Hevesi) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law,  the  correction  law  and  the
   public housing law, in relation to programs, supports and services for
   individuals  being  released from state and local correctional facili-
   ties; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon  expiration
   thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 158 of the social services law, as
 amended by section 44 of part B of chapter 436 of the laws of  1997,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   4. (A) Social services officials shall determine eligibility for safe-
 ty net assistance within forty-five days of receiving an application for
 safety  net assistance. Such officials shall notify applicants of safety
 net assistance about the availability of assistance  to  meet  emergency
 circumstances or to prevent eviction.
   (B)  WHEN  A  LOCAL  SOCIAL  SERVICES  DISTRICT  IS  IDENTIFIED AS THE
 DISTRICT OF RESIDENCE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL BEING RELEASED FROM A  STATE  OR
 LOCAL  CORRECTIONAL  FACILITY, SUCH DISTRICT SHALL ACCEPT AN APPLICATION
 FOR SAFETY NET ASSISTANCE FORTY-FIVE DAYS  PRIOR  TO  SUCH  INDIVIDUAL'S
 EARLIEST EXPECTED RELEASE DATE.
   §  2.  Subparagraph  (iv) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section
 209 of the social services law, as amended by section 4  of  part  E  of
 chapter 57 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
   (iv)  is a resident of the state and is either a citizen of the United
 States or is not an alien who is or  would  be  ineligible  for  federal
 supplemental  security income benefits solely by reason of alien status.
 PROVIDED HOWEVER, AN INDIVIDUAL INCARCERATED IN A STATE OR LOCAL CORREC-
 TIONAL FACILITY, WITH THE INTENTION OF RESIDING IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK
 UPON THEIR RELEASE, SHALL BE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY  FOR  STATE  SUPPLEMENTAL
 PAYMENTS  AT  LEAST NINETY DAYS PRIOR TO THEIR EARLIEST EXPECTED RELEASE
 DATE.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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