Permits an applicant for public assistance or care to select the local social services office most accessible to such person's residence if such office is in the local social services district in which such person resides and such office has the capacity to accept such person; requires written notification of this provision be given to an applicant by the social services official.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4219
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 6, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. DILAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to assignment of
social services recipients to local offices
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
2 134-c to read as follows:
3 § 134-c. Assignment to local offices. For the purposes of assigning a
4 person applying for public assistance or care on or after January first,
5 two thousand nineteen to a local social services office, the social
6 services official shall allow such person to choose the local social
7 services office most accessible to such person's place of residence,
8 provided that such local social services office is located within the
9 local social services district in which such person resides, provided
10 that the capacity of such office permits the assignment. The social
11 services official shall inform, in writing, an applicant of public
12 assistance or care of the provisions of this section.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately provided, however, that
14 the commissioner of the office of temporary and disability assistance
15 shall promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary to imple-
16 ment the provisions of this act on or before January 1, 2019.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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