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Assembly Bill A3399

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires screening incarcerated individuals for eligibility in the supplemental nutrition assistance program prior to release

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2025-A3399 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5265
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §619-a, Cor L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A8234, S8173

2025-A3399 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires screening incarcerated individuals for eligibility in the supplemental nutrition assistance program prior to release and assistance in applying for such programs; requires officials to seek waivers from the USDA for eligibility for such program.

2025-A3399 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3399
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. GONZALEZ-ROJAS, HEVESI, BURDICK, LEVENBERG --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to screening incarcerat-
   ed individuals for eligibility in the supplemental  nutrition  assist-
   ance program prior to release

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 619-a
 to read as follows:
   § 619-A. SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ACCESS PROGRAM SCREENING.  IT SHALL BE
 THE DUTY OF AN OFFICIAL OF ANY INSTITUTION UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE
 COMMISSIONER TO COOPERATE WITH AN AUTHORIZED AGENCY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
 SOCIAL SERVICES TO SCREEN INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS FOR  ELIGIBILITY  FOR
 THE  SUPPLEMENTAL  NUTRITION  ACCESS PROGRAM PURSUANT TO SECTION NINETY-
 FIVE OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW THIRTY DAYS  PRIOR  TO  RELEASE  AND  TO
 ASSIST  SUCH  ELIGIBLE  INDIVIDUALS  IN  APPLYING FOR SUCH PROGRAM. SUCH
 OFFICIAL, IN COOPERATION WITH THE  AUTHORIZED  AGENCY,  SHALL  SEEK  ANY
 NECESSARY  WAIVERS  FROM  THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE TO
 SUSPEND THE THREE-MONTH TIME LIMIT FOR INDIVIDUALS IN AREAS WITHOUT WORK
 AND TO ENSURE THAT INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS HAVE ONE YEAR OF ELIGIBILITY
 UPON RELEASE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06100-01-5

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