Requires notice to unemployment applicants of the supplemental nutrition assistance program and the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children (WIC).
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1902--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 17, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to providing notice to unem-
ployment applicants of the supplemental nutrition assistance program
and special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and
children
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 540 of the labor law, as amended by chapter 251 of
2 the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 540. Information about [food stamp utility, and rental and mortgage]
4 assistance programs. The commissioner shall establish procedures whereby
5 each person who files a claim for unemployment insurance pursuant to
6 section five hundred ninety-six of this article, shall receive informa-
7 tion about the [food stamp] supplemental nutrition assistance program
8 provided by the office of temporary and disability assistance pursuant
9 to subdivision six of section ninety-five-a of the social services law,
10 the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and chil-
11 dren provided by the department of health under section twenty-five
12 hundred seven of the public health law, and the utility assistance and
13 rental and mortgage assistance programs available through the division
14 of housing and community renewal and the office of temporary and disa-
15 bility assistance. The commissioner shall also provide information about
16 such programs on the department's website. Such information shall be
17 prominently displayed and easily accessible by individuals filing a
18 claim or certifying for unemployment benefits.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
20 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04244-07-3
