Directs the social services district to take no action to establish paternity or a child support order when the applicant or recipient for aid to dependent children has established good cause to refuse to cooperate.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10068--A
IN ASSEMBLY
March 6, 2020
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Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT, CRUZ, SIMON -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Children and Families -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to waiving the
requirement of establishing paternity or a child support order for
certain applicants or recipients of aid to dependent children
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 349-b of the social services law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
3 3. When the applicant or recipient has established good cause to
4 refuse to cooperate, the social services district shall take no action
5 to establish paternity or a child support order.
6 § 2. Subdivision 6 of section 158 of the social services law is
7 amended by adding a new paragraph (iii) to read as follows:
8 (iii) When the applicant or recipient has established good cause to
9 refuse to cooperate, the social services district shall take no action
10 to establish paternity or a child support order.
11 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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