Relates to the authorized representative of an eligible recipient of SNAP benefits, permitting such eligible recipient to authorize third-party software applications, including those not developed in contract with any state or federal agency, to have the ability to access the benefit information of such recipient, including but not limited to, his or her account balance and transaction history.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10945
IN ASSEMBLY
May 29, 2018
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Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the authorized
representative of an eligible recipient of SNAP benefits
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 7 of section 95 of the social
2 services law, as separately amended by chapter 41 and section 3 of part
3 A of chapter 57 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
4 (b) For the purposes of this subdivision, "authorized representative"
5 shall be defined in regulations promulgated by the commissioner. Such
6 regulations shall include but not be limited to permitting an eligible
7 recipient to authorize third party software applications, including
8 those not developed in contract with any state or federal agency, to
9 have the ability to access the benefit information of such recipient,
10 including but not limited to, his or her account balance and transaction
11 history.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
13 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment
14 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
15 of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to be made
16 and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15686-02-8
