Rozic, Stirpe, Gottfried, Fahy, Peoples-Stokes, Dinowitz, Bronson, De La Rosa
MLTSPNSR
Amd §131-n, Soc Serv L
Exempts amounts received from any financial settlement for childhood sexual abuse for determining eligibility for or amount of benefits under any program provided under the social security law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7516
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 13, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. WALLACE, ROZIC, STIRPE, GOTTFRIED, FAHY,
PEOPLES-STOKES, DINOWITZ, BRONSON, DE LA ROSA -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to exempting
amounts received from any financial settlement for childhood sexual
abuse for determining eligibility for or amount of benefits
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 131-n of the social services law, as amended by
2 section 16 of part B of chapter 436 of the laws of 1997, is amended by
3 adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
4 4. If and to the extent permitted by federal law and regulations,
5 amounts received from any financial settlement for childhood sexual
6 abuse shall be exempt from consideration as income or resources for the
7 purposes of determining eligibility for and the amount of benefits under
8 any program provided under the authority of this chapter.
9 § 2. Section 131-n of the social services law, as amended by chapter
10 635 of the laws of 1976, is amended by adding a new subdivision 3 to
11 read as follows:
12 3. If and to the extent permitted by federal law and regulations,
13 amounts received from any financial settlement for childhood sexual
14 abuse shall be exempt from consideration as income or resources for the
15 purposes of determining eligibility for and the amount of benefits under
16 any program provided under the authority of this chapter.
17 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
18 ments to section 131-n of the social services law made by section one of
19 this act shall be subject to the expiration and reversion of such subdi-
20 vision pursuant to section 153 of part B of chapter 436 of the laws of
21 1997 as amended, when upon such date the provisions of section two of
22 this act shall take effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07764-01-1
