Suspends sanctions for noncompliance with public assistance employment program requirements during a state of emergency declared pursuant to an executive order.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN ASSEMBLY
July 9, 2020
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Hevesi) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to suspending sanc-
tions for noncompliance with public assistance employment program
requirements during a state of emergency declared pursuant to an exec-
utive order
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 342 of the social services law, as
2 added by chapter 562 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
3 6. An individual shall not be sanctioned for failing to comply with
4 the requirements of this title during a state disaster emergency, as
5 defined in section twenty of the executive law, that involves a disease
6 outbreak.
7 7. The provisions of this section shall not apply to persons who are
8 residents of a city having a population of one million or more people.
9 § 2. Section 342-a of the social services law is amended by adding a
10 new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
11 7. An individual shall not be sanctioned for failing to comply with
12 the requirements of this title during a state disaster emergency, as
13 defined in section twenty of the executive law, that involves a disease
14 outbreak.
15 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to any
16 public assistance household a member of which was sanctioned or entered
17 into conciliation between March 7, 2020 and the end of the state disas-
18 ter emergency declared pursuant to executive order 202 of 2020 in
19 response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16862-01-0
