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Assembly Bill A5030

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires social services districts to automatically re-enroll eligible persons or households for the low-income home energy assistance program

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2023-A5030 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2496
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §97, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
S1966

2023-A5030 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires social services districts to, every heating season, automatically re-enroll persons or households currently receiving assistance through the low-income home energy assistance program, so long as each person or household maintains eligibility.

2023-A5030 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5030
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 27, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Social Services
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring social
   services districts to  automatically  re-enroll  eligible  persons  or
   households for the low-income home energy assistance program

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 97 of the social services law,  as
 added by chapter 785 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  A.  Each social services district shall be required, in accordance
 with the state plan and  federal  regulations,  to  participate  in  the
 federal low-income home energy assistance program and to assist eligible
 households  found  in  such  districts  to obtain low-income home energy
 assistance. However, only those persons who qualify for low-income  home
 energy assistance in accordance with federal and state requirements, and
 standards  promulgated by the department, shall be certified as eligible
 for and entitled to receive said  home  energy  assistance.  No  person,
 however, shall be certified as eligible for and entitled to receive said
 home  energy  assistance  if  no  federal  funds  are available for such
 purpose.
   B. EACH SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT SHALL EVERY HEATING  SEASON  AUTOMAT-
 ICALLY  RE-ENROLL  PERSONS  OR  HOUSEHOLDS WHO ARE RECEIVING HOME ENERGY
 ASSISTANCE THROUGH THE LOW-INCOME HOME  ENERGY  ASSISTANCE  PROGRAM,  SO
 LONG  AS  SUCH  PERSONS  OR  HOUSEHOLDS CONTINUE TO MEET THE FEDERAL AND
 STATE ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS  AND  STANDARDS.  FOR  PURPOSES  OF  THIS
 SECTION,  "HEATING  SEASON" SHALL MEAN THE TIME PERIOD DESIGNATED BY THE
 OFFICE OF TEMPORARY AND DISABILITY ASSISTANCE EACH YEAR.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02801-01-3

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