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Assembly Bill A10155A

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Increases the federal poverty level requirement for recipients where it concerns the one-time disregard of earned income

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2023-A10155 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8374
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §131-a, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A4317, S182

2023-A10155 - Summary

Increases the federal poverty level requirement for recipients where it concerns the one-time disregard of earned income following job entry.

2023-A10155 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10155
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 10, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Davila) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in  relation  to  removing  the
   federal  poverty  level  requirement for recipients of social services
   where it concerns the one-time disregard of  earned  income  following
   job entry for up to six consecutive months

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph (xiii) of paragraph (a) of  subdivision  8  of
 section  131-a of the social services law, as added by section 2 of part
 X of chapter 56 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
   (xiii) once during the lifetime of a recipient of  public  assistance,
 all of the earned income of such recipient will be disregarded following
 job entry, provided that such exemption of income for purposes of public
 assistance  eligibility shall be for no more than six consecutive months
 from the initial date of obtaining such employment [and that the recipi-
 ent's total income shall not be more than two  hundred  percent  of  the
 federal  poverty  level].  In  the  event  a recipient moves from one to
 another social services district, this disregard shall follow the recip-
 ient.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14068-01-4

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2023-A10155A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8374
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §131-a, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A4317, S182

2023-A10155A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the federal poverty level requirement for recipients where it concerns the one-time disregard of earned income following job entry.

2023-A10155A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                 10155--A
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 10, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Davila) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services --  commit-
   tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
   mitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to  increasing  the
   federal  poverty  level  requirement for recipients of social services
   where it concerns the one-time disregard of  earned  income  following
   job entry for up to six consecutive months
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph (xiii) of paragraph (a) of  subdivision  8  of
 section  131-a of the social services law, as added by section 2 of part
 X of chapter 56 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
   (xiii) once during the lifetime of a recipient of  public  assistance,
 all of the earned income of such recipient will be disregarded following
 job entry, provided that such exemption of income for purposes of public
 assistance  eligibility shall be for no more than six consecutive months
 from the initial date of obtaining such employment and that the  recipi-
 ent's  total income shall not be more than [two] FOUR hundred percent of
 the federal poverty level. In the event a recipient moves  from  one  to
 another social services district, this disregard shall follow the recip-
 ient.    THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  SEEK  ANY FEDERAL WAIVER NECESSARY TO
 EFFECTUATE THE ONE-TIME EARNED INCOME DISREGARD PURSUANT TO THIS  SUBDI-
 VISION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14068-05-4

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