Assembly Bill A7340

2021-2022 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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2021-A7340 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§158 & 209, Soc Serv L; amd §112, add §§500-q, 71-b & 11, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A10763
2023-2024: A2461

2021-A7340 (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.

2021-A7340 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7340
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 5, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  social  services law and the correction law, in
   relation to programs, supports  and  services  for  individuals  being
   released from state and local correctional facilities

   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 SIX MONTHS PRIOR TO SUCH INDIVIDUAL'S EARLIEST
 EXPECTED RELEASE DATE.   IN THE EVENT  THE  INDIVIDUAL  IS  NOT  GRANTED
 PAROLE,  HIS  OR  HER  APPLICATION  WILL  BE PLACED ON HOLD STATUS TO BE
 RE-ACTIVATED AND GIVEN A PRIORITY RANK ONCE SUCH INDIVIDUAL  IS  GRANTED
 PAROLE  AND AN OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE IS KNOWN. THIS SPECIAL STATUS SHALL
 BE DEFINED BY PROCESS COMPLETION OF THE APPLICATION  BY  THE  RESPECTIVE
 DISTRICT  OFFICE  WITHIN  THIRTY  DAYS OF RECEIVING THE OFFICIAL 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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