Provides that applicants for or recipients of SNAP benefits shall not be subjected to finger imaging as a requirement of the supplemental nutrition assistance program.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2538--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. DAVILA, CUNNINGHAM -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Social Services -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to finger imaging
for SNAP benefit 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 SNAP benefits to be subjected to finger imaging as a
5 requirement of the supplemental nutrition assistance program.
6 § 2. This act shall take effect September 1, 2026.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04592-03-5
