Assembly Bill A3537

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Suspends sanctions for noncompliance with public assistance employment program requirements during a state of emergency declared pursuant to an executive order

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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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2021-A3537 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Social Services
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§342 & 342-a, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A10761

2021-A3537 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Suspends sanctions for noncompliance with public assistance employment program requirements during a state of emergency declared pursuant to an executive order.

2021-A3537 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3537
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Social Services
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to suspending sanc-
   tions  for  noncompliance  with  public  assistance employment program
   requirements during a state of emergency declared pursuant to an exec-
   utive order

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 342 of the social services law, as
 added by chapter 562 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   6.  AN  INDIVIDUAL  SHALL NOT BE SANCTIONED FOR FAILING TO COMPLY WITH
 THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS TITLE DURING A  STATE  DISASTER  EMERGENCY,  AS
 DEFINED  IN SECTION TWENTY OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW, THAT INVOLVES A DISEASE
 OUTBREAK.
   7. The provisions of this section shall not apply to persons  who  are
 residents of a city having a population of one million or more people.
   §  2.  Section 342-a of the social services law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
   7. AN INDIVIDUAL SHALL NOT BE SANCTIONED FOR FAILING  TO  COMPLY  WITH
 THE  REQUIREMENTS  OF  THIS  TITLE DURING A STATE DISASTER EMERGENCY, AS
 DEFINED IN SECTION TWENTY OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW, THAT INVOLVES A  DISEASE
 OUTBREAK.
   §  3.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to any
 public assistance household a member of which was sanctioned or  entered
 into  conciliation between March 7, 2020 and the end of the state disas-
 ter emergency declared pursuant  to  executive  order  202  of  2020  in
 response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01772-01-1

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