Requires a posting of the rights of individuals who are applying to receive assistance including the right to: a fair hearing; ask about emergency assistance; apply for all benefits and services; ask about child care; free language services; screening and special services if experiencing domestic violence; and a written adequate notice.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5817--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 25, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Social Services -- recommitted to the Committee on Social Services
in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,
bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said
committee
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to public notice of
basic rights
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. Requirement to publicly post information. 1. Each local
4 social services district shall be required to post information in
5 accordance with this section, in a form and manner to be determined by
6 the commissioner. Such poster shall be conspicuous and visible to all
7 applicants and/or recipients of public assistance who are applying for
8 assistance and be at least eight and one-half inches by eleven inches in
9 size. Such information shall also be posted on the office of temporary
10 and disability assistance's website.
11 2. Such information shall include, but not be limited to, informing
12 individuals who are applying to receive assistance that they have the
13 right to:
14 (a) a fair hearing;
15 (b) ask about emergency assistance;
16 (c) apply for all benefits and services;
17 (d) ask about child care;
18 (e) free language services;
19 (f) screening and special services if experiencing domestic violence;
20 and
21 (g) a written adequate notice.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
23 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05099-02-2
