STATE OF NEW YORK
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8179
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 19, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. PERSAUD -- (at request of the Office of Temporary and
Disability Assistance) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services
AN ACT to amend chapter 436 of the laws of 1997, constituting the
welfare reform act of 1997, in relation to extending the current
exemptions of income and resources for public assistance programs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (c) of section 153 of part B of chapter 436 of
2 the laws of 1997, constituting the welfare reform act of 1997, as
3 amended by chapter 195 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as
4 follows:
5 (c) Section sixteen of this act shall take effect November 1, 1997 and
6 expire and be deemed repealed August 22, [2025] 2027;
7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
8 if this act shall have become a law on or after August 22, 2025 this act
9 shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to have been in full
10 force and effect on and after August 22, 2025.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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