STATE OF NEW YORK
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2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 16, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. HAWLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring that
recipients of public assistance benefits must be residents of the
state for at least ninety days prior to applying for such benefits
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 131 of the social services law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 5-b to read as follows:
3 5-b. No public assistance shall be given to an applicant for public
4 assistance who has not been a resident of the state for at least ninety
5 days prior to applying for such assistance.
6 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
7 ing the date upon which 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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