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A01374 Summary:

BILL NO	A01374
SAME AS	SAME AS S04333
SPONSOR	Wright
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Amd S131-a, Soc Serv L
Provides for public assistance eligibility requirements for persons with AIDS or HIV- related illnesses and the expiration of such benefits.

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A01374 Actions:

BILL NO	A01374
01/07/2009	referred to social services
01/06/2010	referred to social services

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A01374 Floor Votes:

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A01374 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          1374
 
                               2009-2010 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 7, 2009
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Social Services
 
        AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to eligibility for
          persons  with  acquired  immunodeficiency  syndrome   or   HIV-related

          illnesses;  and  providing  for the repeal of such provisions upon the
          expiration thereof
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 131-a of the social services law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows:
     3    (f) In determining the eligibility for and amount of public assistance
     4  benefits for a person or household where one or more  persons  has  been
     5  medically  diagnosed  as  having  acquired  immunodeficiency syndrome or
     6  HIV-related illnesses, a social services district shall use the  special
     7  shelter  allowance  amounts  established  by the office of temporary and
     8  disability assistance in regulation for that  purpose  rather  than  the

     9  shelter  allowance  established  in paragraph (b) of this subdivision. A
    10  social services district shall only use this special  shelter  allowance
    11  when  it  determines that the person or family is homeless or faced with
    12  homelessness and for whom no viable and less costly alternative  housing
    13  is  available  and  such  allowance is necessary to secure housing or to
    14  maintain the family in their own home. In  calculating  eligibility  and
    15  the amount of benefits, the social services district shall consider only
    16  the  persons  with  acquired  immunodeficiency  syndrome  or HIV-related
    17  illness and the members of the public assistance household in accordance
    18  with section one hundred thirty-one-c of this title and their  available
    19  income.

    20    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    21  ing the date on which it shall have become a law and shall expire Novem-
    22  ber  1,  2010  when  upon  such date the provisions of this act shall be
    23  deemed repealed.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00439-01-9

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