STATE OF NEW YORK
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8881
IN SENATE
August 7, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. HELMING -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the authority of the
welfare inspector general to conduct investigations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 48 of the executive law, as
2 amended by chapter 754 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 5. [On the initiative of the office and at] At the direction of the
5 welfare inspector general, to conduct any investigation: of the oper-
6 ations of the state social services department and local social services
7 districts, the state health department and local health departments, and
8 the state department of mental hygiene and community mental health
9 boards in order to insure proper expenditure of welfare funds; of
10 violations of the welfare system; of failure to prosecute welfare
11 frauds; of failure to enforce the state's laws regarding the employment
12 of welfare recipients in available employment; of failure of local offi-
13 cials and employees to comply with state law, rules, and regulations
14 regarding welfare administration which shall be deemed to include
15 medical assistance, and other matters relating thereto.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15712-01-0
