Establishes a program as part of the supplemental nutrition assistance program to allow recipients to purchase prepared meals at certain establishments.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8930
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
December 30, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to establishing a
program as part of the supplemental nutrition assistance program to
allow recipients to purchase prepared meals at certain establishments
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 95 of the social services law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
3 11. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
4 the office shall establish a program as part of the SNAP to allow recip-
5 ients to purchase prepared meals at certain establishments in accordance
6 with 7 U.S.C. 2012(k).
7 (b) The office shall adopt any rules necessary to implement the
8 provisions of this subdivision.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
10 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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