STATE OF NEW YORK
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5303--A
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 15, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT, KELLNER, CASTRO, PEOPLES-STOKES --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BOYLAND, CLARK, GLICK, GOTTFRIED,
JEFFRIES, MILLMAN, REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Social Services -- reported and referred to the Committee on Ways
and Means -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to finger imaging
for food stamps recipients
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 95 of the social services law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
3 (d) No commissioner of social services shall require applicants for or
4 recipients of food stamps to be subjected to finger imaging as a
5 requirement of the food stamp program.
6 § 2. This act shall take effect September 1, 2012.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03868-02-2
