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A08488 Summary:
BILL NO | A08488 |
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SAME AS | SAME AS S08022 |
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SPONSOR | Solages |
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Amd §131-ss, Soc Serv L (as proposed in S.4548 & A.4876) | |
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Relates to automated identification of OTDA assistance program participants; identifies entities to be defined as a "utility corporation"; requires utility corporations to administer secure transmission of participant data; requires utility corporations to conduct automated file matching with OTDA assistance program participant accounts; directs utility corporations to notify participants of automatic enrollment in utility corporation affordability program; makes related provisions. |
A08488 Actions:
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01/04/2024 | referred to social services | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/30/2024 | reported | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
02/01/2024 | advanced to third reading cal.291 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
02/05/2024 | passed assembly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
02/05/2024 | delivered to senate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
02/05/2024 | REFERRED TO RULES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
02/07/2024 | SUBSTITUTED FOR S8022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
02/07/2024 | 3RD READING CAL.176 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
02/07/2024 | PASSED SENATE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
02/07/2024 | RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
02/13/2024 | delivered to governor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
02/13/2024 | signed chap.78 |
A08488 Committee Votes:
Davila | Aye | Maher | Aye | ||||||
Aubry | Aye | Goodell | Aye | ||||||
Solages | Aye | Simpson | Aye | ||||||
Eichenstein | Aye | Beephan | Aye | ||||||
Reyes | Aye | Chang | Aye | ||||||
Forrest | Aye | ||||||||
Gonzalez-Rojas | Aye | ||||||||
De Los Santos | Aye | ||||||||
Ardila | Aye | ||||||||
Simone | Aye | ||||||||
Raga | Aye | ||||||||
Lee | Aye | ||||||||
Berger | Aye | ||||||||
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A08488 Floor Votes:
Yes
Alvarez
Yes
Byrnes
Yes ‡
Fitzpatrick
Yes
Kim
ER
Palmesano
Yes
Slater
Yes
Anderson
Yes
Carroll
Yes
Flood
Yes
Lavine
Yes
Paulin
Yes
Smith
Yes
Angelino
Yes
Chandler-Waterm
ER
Forrest
Yes
Lee
Yes
Peoples-Stokes
Yes
Smullen
Yes
Ardila
Yes
Chang
Yes
Friend
Yes
Lemondes
Yes
Pheffer Amato
Yes
Solages
Yes
Aubry
Yes
Clark
Yes
Gallagher
Yes
Levenberg
Yes
Pirozzolo
Yes
Steck
Yes
Barclay
Yes
Colton
Yes
Gallahan
ER
Lucas
Yes
Pretlow
Yes
Stern
Yes
Barrett
Yes
Conrad
Yes
Gandolfo
Yes
Lunsford
Yes
Ra
Yes
Stirpe
Yes
Beephan
Yes
Cook
Yes
Gibbs
Yes
Lupardo
Yes
Raga
Yes
Tague
Yes
Bendett
Yes
Cruz
Yes
Giglio JA
Yes
Magnarelli
Yes
Rajkumar
Yes
Tannousis
Yes
Benedetto
Yes
Cunningham
Yes
Giglio JM
Yes
Maher
Yes
Ramos
Yes
Tapia
Yes
Berger
Yes
Curran
Yes
Glick
Yes
Mamdani
Yes
Reilly
Yes
Taylor
ER
Bichotte Hermel
Yes
Darling
Yes
Gonzalez-Rojas
Yes
Manktelow
Yes
Reyes
Yes
Thiele
Yes
Blankenbush
Yes
Davila
Yes
Goodell
Yes
McDonald
Yes
Rivera
Yes
Vanel
Yes
Blumencranz
Yes
De Los Santos
Yes
Gray
Yes ‡
McDonough
Yes
Rosenthal
Yes
Walker
Yes
Bores
Yes
DeStefano
Yes
Gunther
Yes
McGowan
Yes ‡
Rozic
Yes
Wallace
Yes
Brabenec
Yes ‡
Dickens
Yes
Hawley
Yes
McMahon
Yes
Santabarbara
Yes
Walsh
Yes
Braunstein
Yes
Dilan
Yes
Hevesi
Yes
Meeks
Yes
Sayegh
Yes ‡
Weinstein
Yes
Bronson
Yes
Dinowitz
Yes
Hunter
Yes
Mikulin
Yes
Seawright
Yes
Weprin
Yes
Brook-Krasny
Yes
DiPietro
Yes
Hyndman
Yes
Miller
Yes
Septimo
ER
Williams
Yes
Brown EA
Yes
Durso
Yes
Jackson
Yes
Mitaynes
Yes
Shimsky
Yes
Woerner
Yes
Brown K
Yes
Eachus
Yes
Jacobson
Yes
Morinello
Yes
Shrestha
Yes
Zaccaro
Yes
Burdick
Yes
Eichenstein
Yes
Jean-Pierre
Yes
Norris
Yes ‡
Sillitti
Yes
Zebrowski
Yes
Burgos
Yes
Epstein
Yes
Jensen
Yes
Novakhov
Yes
Simon
Yes
Zinerman
Yes
Burke
Yes
Fahy
Yes
Jones
Yes
O'Donnell
Yes
Simone
Yes
Mr. Speaker
Yes
Buttenschon
Yes
Fall
Yes ‡
Kelles
Yes
Otis
Yes
Simpson
‡ Indicates voting via videoconference
A08488 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8488 IN ASSEMBLY January 4, 2024 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Social Services AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to automated iden- tification of OTDA assistance program participants The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 131-ss of the social services law, as added by a 2 chapter of the laws of 2023 relating to providing for the automated 3 identification of affordability program participants, as proposed in 4 legislative bills numbers S. 4548 and A. 4876, is amended to read as 5 follows: 6 § 131-ss. Automated identification of [affordability] OTDA assistance 7 program participants. 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, 8 the following terms shall have the following meanings: 9 (a) "Commissioner" shall mean the commissioner of the office of tempo- 10 rary and disability assistance. 11 (b) "Office" or "OTDA" shall mean the office of temporary and disabil- 12 ity assistance. 13 (c) "[Affordability] OTDA assistance program participant" shall mean a 14 household that is determined to be eligible by the [appropriate agency] 15 office for any of the following programs, provided, however, that the 16 office may require written consent from OTDA assistance program partic- 17 ipants before using data obtained from any of the following programs for 18 the purposes of this section: 19 (i) Public assistance; 20 (ii) [Supplemental security income;21(iii) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP);22(iv) Low income home] Home energy assistance program[;23(v) Veteran's disability pension;24(vi) Veteran's surviving spouse pension;25(vii) Child health plus;26(viii) Lifeline]; and EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01630-03-4A. 8488 2 1 [(ix)] (iii) Any other income-based assistance program identified by 2 the public service commission [in consultation with] that is adminis- 3 tered and approved for inclusion under this section by the office. 4 [(c) "Office" shall mean the office of temporary disability assist-5ance.] 6 (d) "Utility corporation" shall [mean a corporation regulated pursuant7to article two of the public service law] include utility companies, 8 utility corporations, public utility companies, public utility corpo- 9 rations, gas corporations, electric corporations, or municipalities as 10 defined in section two of the public service law and regulated pursuant 11 to the public service law, a municipal corporation that provides public 12 utility services, a rural electric cooperative, or a state public 13 authority that provides utility services. 14 (e) "Utility corporation energy affordability programs" shall be 15 defined by the public service commission and shall [include] be limited 16 to utility corporation programs which are intended to assist customers 17 with energy affordability by reducing customers' energy burden. 18 2. Within one [hundred eighty days] year of the effective date of this 19 section, the commissioner shall [establish a statewide program to] 20 provide for automated identification of [eligible affordability] OTDA 21 assistance program participants for participation in utility corporation 22 energy affordability programs pursuant to subdivision four of this 23 section. 24 3. The [office shall engage with utility corporations to establish25automated file matching mechanisms that will provide, via electronic26means, to utility corporations a list of eligible affordability program27participants within the utility corporation's service territory] utility 28 corporation shall be responsible for working with the office to facili- 29 tate and implement the technological capabilities to allow for the 30 secure transmission of data through an interface with the office's 31 information technology infrastructure. 32 4. [The] (a) To the extent permitted by federal law, regulations and 33 policies, the office, upon the utility corporation agreeing to and sign- 34 ing the office's data terms and upon receipt of the required data 35 elements from the utility corporation, as such data elements are defined 36 by the office, shall conduct automated file matching to identify utility 37 corporation customer accounts that are also [affordability] OTDA assist- 38 ance program participants and, if permitted by federal law, regulations 39 and policies, such information shall be provided to utility corporations 40 no less than semi-annually. Utility corporation customer accounts iden- 41 tified by the office as potentially eligible for participation in avail- 42 able utility corporation energy affordability programs as a result of 43 such file matching shall be, if confirmed as eligible for such utility 44 corporation energy affordability programs by the utility corporation, 45 enrolled in such utility corporation energy affordability programs by 46 the utility corporation within sixty days of receipt by the utility 47 corporation of [the office communicating] the results of the automated 48 file [matching to the utility corporation] match. Any information 49 provided to the utility corporations related to [affordability] OTDA 50 assistance program participants pursuant to this section shall not be 51 [redacted as necessary to protect any information that is protected52under any state or federal privacy laws, kept confidential,] redisclosed 53 by the utility corporation and shall only be utilized for the purpose of 54 confirming eligibility in the utility corporation energy affordability 55 program and providing notifications pursuant to paragraph (b) of this 56 subdivision.A. 8488 3 1 (b) Upon automatic enrollment in the utility corporation energy 2 affordability program, the utility corporation shall provide written 3 notification to the utility corporation energy affordability program 4 participant of their enrollment in such program. 5 (c) Except as prohibited by federal law, regulation, or policy, and 6 notwithstanding any provision of state or local law, regulation, or 7 policy to the contrary, a utility corporation is authorized to share the 8 required data elements for the purposes of and as provided for by this 9 section. 10 5. The commissioner may adopt, on an emergency basis pursuant to arti- 11 cle two of the state administrative procedure act, any rules necessary 12 to carry out the provisions of this article. 13 6. The commissioner may delegate the administration of any portion of 14 this [program] section to any state agency, social services official, 15 city, county, town, contractor or non-profit organization in accordance 16 with the provisions of this article and applicable federal requirements. 17 Provided however, such privacy and confidentiality limitations 18 prescribed in [subdivision four of] this section shall apply to any 19 entity [that] to which the commissioner delegates the administration of 20 [the program to] any portion of this section. 21 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 22 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2023 relating to providing for the 23 automated identification of affordability program participants, as 24 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 4548 and A. 4876, takes effect.