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New York Senate Social Services Committee
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| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Referral Date |
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| A01817 | Defines "closed period of eligibility" for purposes of supplemental security income for aged, blind, and disabled persons; includes such time period in the eligibility requirements of such supplemental security income. | Crossed Over | 05/29/2025 |
| A02332 | Requires any website or mobile application associated with an electronic benefit transfer system to be offered in the twelve most common non-English languages spoken by limited-English proficient individuals in the state, based on data in the most recent American Community Survey published by the United States Census Bureau. | Crossed Over | 05/20/2025 |
| A08433 | Extends current exemptions of income and resources for public assistance programs under the welfare reform act of 1997. | Crossed Over | 05/21/2025 |
| S00113 | Relates to the standards of monthly need for persons in receipt of public assistance; provides for an increased monthly allowance for persons and families residing in shelters. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00136 | Establishes a five-year window for any entity participating in the New York state supportive housing program (NYSSHP) in good standing with such program to participate in a request for proposal to increase their contract rates up to ESSHI levels. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00143 | Establishes a coordinated law enforcement adult rescue "teal alert" for missing adults; provides that local law enforcement agencies notify the division of criminal justice services about missing adults; provides that such division shall issue an alert about such missing adult. | In Committee | 05/05/2025 |
| S00168 | Makes migrant youth under the age of 25 who are receiving runaway and homeless youth services eligible to receive housing vouchers under the family homelessness and eviction prevention supplement ("FHEPS") program. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00180 | Increases the amount certain individuals are eligible for when receiving enhanced residential care. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00181 | Expands the membership of the interagency task force on trafficking in persons to include the commissioner of the department of transportation, the commissioner of the department of motor vehicles and the executive director of the New York state thruway authority. | Crossed Over | 01/08/2025 |
| S00182 | Increases the federal poverty level requirement for recipients where it concerns the one-time disregard of earned income following job entry. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00184 | Establishes a full year youth and young adult employment immersion program under the office of temporary and disability assistance for persons aged sixteen to twenty-four who have an income below two hundred sixty-five percent of the federal poverty line. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00201 | Provides that in the event child protective services receives a duplicate report on an open case that has not been founded, indicated or referred to services, such duplicate report shall merge with the open case and remain open an additional thirty days for further investigation. | Crossed Over | 01/08/2025 |
| S00244 | Establishes a fiscal cliff task force to conduct a study on fiscal cliffs in the state's public assistance programs and to make recommendations related thereto. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00246 | Relates to resource exemptions for applicants for public assistance programs; amends the Welfare Reform Act in relation to the effectiveness thereof. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00442 | Relates to assisting persons with medically diagnosed HIV infection. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00498 | Establishes the standardized human-trafficking recognition training program for private transportation services employees; requires private transportation services to require all employees to undergo a human-trafficking recognition training program established by the division of criminal justice services and the office of temporary and disability assistance in consultation with the department of transportation and the New York state interagency task force on human trafficking. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00602 | Relates to the payment of shelter and rent arrears; provides that all shelter arrears payments authorized for applicants to receive an emergency grant to pay for rent, property taxes or mortgage arrears shall be limited to once every year unless the district determines at its discretion that additional shelter arrears payments are necessary based on the individual circumstances. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00665 | Establishes a state SNAP minimum benefit program to provide a minimum amount of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits that is higher than the amount of federal SNAP benefits. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00673 | Establishes the housing people and animals together grant program to expand access for co-sheltering people experiencing homelessness and victims of domestic violence with companion animals. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00710 | Relates to eligibility for the temporary assistance to needy families block grant program, safety net assistance and medical assistance for certain noncitizens. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00890 | Expands the maximum benefit and eligibility requirements for financial assistance for burial arrangements; provides for expedited assistance during a state disaster emergency. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00891 | Directs the department of social services to establish a centralized homelessness crisis response data system through which state agencies, local governmental entities, including law enforcement agencies, court systems, school districts, and emergency service providers, and other relevant persons are able to share and access information related to individuals who experience chronic homelessness in order to connect or refer such individuals to services including affordable housing opportunities. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S00913 | Prohibits requiring that an individual have a court proceeding initiated against them in order to qualify for a rent arrears grant or ongoing rental assistance. | Crossed Over | 01/08/2025 |
| S00958 | Relates to making certain housing programs available regardless of immigration status; provides that local social services districts in a city with a population of five million or more shall be permitted to offer certain housing programs to individuals or families who would be eligible but for a federal law restricting eligibility based on immigration. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S01127 | Relates to increasing the standards of monthly need and home energy grant amounts for persons in receipt of public assistance. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
| S01281 | Establishes the New York healthy incentive program (Part A); automates SNAP and the New York healthy incentive program (Part B); establishes the New York healthy incentive program outreach program (Part C). | Crossed Over | 01/09/2025 |
| S01454 | Requires shelter allowances be set at up to one hundred percent of the fair market rent for the local social services district. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| S01458 | Removes the requirement that rent arrears be repaid for social services districts located in a municipality with a population of five million or more. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| S01465 | Requires the implementation of an electronic benefit transfer system using industry-standard commercial electronic funds transfer technology. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
| S01624 | Requires that recipients of public assistance benefits must be residents of the state for at least ninety days prior to applying for such benefits. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| S01757 | Relates to the unearned income of a child when the parent or non-parent caregiver chooses to exclude such child from the public assistance household. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| S01771 | Ensures adequate access to information by individuals who have limited English proficiency. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| S01779 | Directs the commissioner of the office of temporary and disability assistance to develop and implement a program to replace all EBT cards issued in the state which utilize magnetic strips with cards that utilize chip technology. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| S01791 | Relates to eliminating asset limits in calculating the amount of benefits for any household under any public assistance program. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
| S01966 | Requires social services districts to, every heating season, automatically re-enroll persons or households currently receiving assistance through the low-income home energy assistance program, so long as each person or household maintains eligibility. | Crossed Over | 01/14/2025 |
| S01994 | Prohibits requiring parents or caretakers to earn a minimum wage to be eligible for child care assistance. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
| S02022 | Exempts aid derived from funding from childcare stabilization grants, childcare desert funding, or other non-recurring funding, issued by the office of children and family services to childcare providers from income for the purpose of determining aid provided pursuant to public assistance programs. | Crossed Over | 01/15/2025 |
| S02210 | Imposes a one year residency requirement for eligibility for medical assistance; authorizes the commissioner of health to promulgate any and all rules and regulations and take any other measures necessary to implement this act. | In Committee | 01/15/2025 |
| S02257 | Extends the period given to certain applicants for public assistance benefits to request a fair hearing on a determination of their ability to participate in work activities from ten days to sixty days or within sixty days of receipt of a work activity assignment. | Crossed Over | 01/16/2025 |
| S02396 | Creates caseload standards for adult protective services workers such that such workers have no more than thirty cases at any time. | In Committee | 01/17/2025 |
| S02401 | Requires the department of social services to issue EMV-compliant or similar electronic benefit transfer cards and process all electronic benefit transfer system transactions using dynamic data authentication. | In Committee | 01/17/2025 |
| S02488 | Establishes an emergency heating energy assistance program benefit to provide emergency assistance to certain households where such household is threatened with shut-off or an energy emergency due to nonpayment. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
| S02516 | Directs the department of social services to establish a refugee resettlement program with the goals of achieving economic and social self-sufficiency, assisting victims of human trafficking, and assuring proper foster care for unaccompanied refugees. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
| S03189 | Requires the office of temporary and disability assistance to make publicly available on its website information regarding waivers, rental supplement plans and shelter supplement plans. | In Committee | 01/24/2025 |
| S03222 | Diminishes certain limitations and restrictions on emergency assistance to pay rent arrears; removes the requirement that such assistance be repaid by the recipient. | In Committee | 01/24/2025 |
| S03582 | Implements additional restrictions on actions to recover overpayment of certain assistance. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
| S03743 | Establishes a co-navigation services program for persons who are deaf-blind to provide services to a person who is deaf-blind that assist the person to physically access the person's environment and to make informed decisions, including providing visual and environmental information or sighted guide services and assisting with communication accessibility by communicating in the preferred language and communication mode of the person who is deaf-blind. | In Committee | 01/29/2025 |
| S03787 | Relates to eliminating rent for homeless shelters; provides that a homeless individual or family applying for or receiving temporary housing assistance shall not be required to pay to any local or state government or agency or any provider, room and board or contribute any earned or unearned income, available benefits or resources to eliminate their need for temporary housing assistance or as a condition to receive temporary housing assistance from such provider. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| S03884 | Relates to requiring the Department of Homeless Services to notify the affected community board prior to locating transitional housing for the homeless; requires written notification sixty days before the department enters into a contractual arrangement with a transitional housing provider or otherwise finalizes its decision to use or expand a location as transitional housing. | In Committee | 04/08/2025 |
| S03913 | Relates to the caseloads of preventative services caseworkers. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| S03937 | Prohibits the imposition of limits on the length of stay at homeless shelters and emergency congregate housing operated by state agencies. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
| S04257 | Relates to access to educational activities by public assistance recipients who are subject to work participation requirements; allows homework expected or required by an educational institution to count towards satisfaction of the work activity requirements for public assistance benefits for participants engaged in certain educational or training activities. | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
| S04417 | Relates to conciliation and non-compliance with public assistance employment. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
| S04446 | Enacts the "shelter arrears eviction forestallment act" to provide emergency assistance for rent or mortgage arrears or other fees for the prevention of eviction. | In Committee | 02/05/2025 |
| S04472 | Implements automatic market rate increases for child care assistance such that assistance will be equal to the applicable payment rate established by the department. | In Committee | 02/05/2025 |
| S04474 | Directs the office of temporary and disability assistance to promulgate rules and regulations requiring quarterly inspections of homeless shelters. | In Committee | 02/05/2025 |
| S04695 | Relates to enacting the intergenerational poverty mitigation act; creates a commission to study intergenerational poverty and a pilot program to address intergenerational poverty subject to appropriation. | In Committee | 02/11/2025 |
| S04762 | Relates to establishing state disaster emergency requirements for homeless shelters including placement of individuals and families in shelters and reporting of infections related to the emergency. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
| S05059 | Provides assistance to incarcerated individuals being released from correctional facilities for enrollment in safety net assistance, public assistance, supplemental assistance program (SNAP), special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children (WIC), the home energy assistance program (HEAP), supplemental security income, and state supplemental payments. | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
| S05129 | Requires food distributors that accept SNAP benefits to establish a mechanism to apply available coupons or discounts to purchases made by eligible recipients of SNAP benefits without such recipient being required to provide a physical coupon. | In Committee | 02/19/2025 |
| S05357 | Caps the monthly maximum payment for hotel rooms to house homeless persons based upon the New York city housing authority Section 8 voucher payment standards. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
| S05437 | Allows prospective and current agency personnel receive certification through remote training methods; requires the establishment of rules and regulations of such remote training. | In Committee | 02/21/2025 |
| S05505 | Requires the office of temporary and disability assistance, in conjunction with the office of mental health and the office of children and family services, to develop a mental illness training course to be utilized by providers of temporary housing assistance to focus on recognizing signs and symptoms of mental illness. | In Committee | 02/24/2025 |
| S05807 | Requires any website or mobile application associated with an electronic benefit transfer system to be offered in the twelve most common non-English languages spoken by limited-English proficient individuals in the state, based on data in the most recent American Community Survey published by the United States Census Bureau. | In Committee | 03/03/2025 |
| S05810 | Requires electronic benefit transfer systems to include automatic credit or debit card cancellation when fraudulent activity has been reported; directs that such cancellation shall occur as soon as the procedure for reporting fraudulent activity has been completed. | In Committee | 03/03/2025 |
| S05924 | Requires certain buildings display domestic violence signs developed by the office for the prevention of domestic violence in their bathrooms. | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |
| S05925 | Requires local social services districts distribute shelter information specifically for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and gender non-conforming persons on the district's website and as pamphlets at intake shelters. | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |
| S05951 | Relates to recipients of public assistance who lack appropriate child care. | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |
| S06119 | Authorizes a victim of domestic violence to apply to the county clerk to remove the violent felony offender from deed of co-owned real property in such county. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| S06133 | Requires the office for the prevention of domestic violence to conduct a study on domestic violence in the transgender community with a focus on Black transgender women. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
| S06455 | Requires homeless shelters to keep an opioid antagonist on hand at all times and trained personnel when required by when applicable law, regulation, code, or operating plan approved by a social services district or the commissioner otherwise requires employees to be at the premises, sets out the requirements for the training of those employees; develops a training plan for opioid overdoses in conjunction with a registered opioid overdose prevention program. | In Committee | 03/14/2025 |
| S06468 | Relates to training and education for sustainable wage jobs and traditional and non-traditional employment in public assistance employment programs. | In Committee | 03/14/2025 |
| S06545 | Relates to additional state payment assistance; provides that where there is no agreement in effect for federal administration of additional state payments the commissioner of the office of temporary and disability assistance is responsible for providing assistance to applicants for or recipients of such payments as it relates to applying for, modifying or maintaining such benefits. | In Committee | 03/17/2025 |
| S06546 | Requires certain safety standards for emergency shelter for victims and alleged victims of domestic violence during a declaration of a state disaster emergency for a disease outbreak; requires accommodations in a hotel or motel where a residential facility does not meet safety standards; requires full cost to be assumed by the state. | In Committee | 03/17/2025 |
| S06643 | Relates to the distribution of food stamp applications to emergency feeding programs. | In Committee | 03/19/2025 |
| S06913 | Establishes the 2-1-1 essential community services hotline system; designates the office of children and family services to oversee the hotline system; establishes the availability and scope of information to be provided by the hotline system and requirements of call centers; requires the office of children and family services to collect certain data relating to the hotline system and to make annual reports to the governor and the legislature. | In Committee | 03/26/2025 |
| S06987 | Requires every city or county social services district to provide a wearable or mobile phone-based panic button to each employee whose job responsibilities necessitate direct interaction with clients in external settings, including but not limited to a client's home, a hospital or medical facility, a school, a childcare center, a community center, or another location where services are provided. | In Committee | 03/27/2025 |
| S07005 | Establishes a waiver program allowing a domestic violence residential program to apply to the office of children and family services for a waiver enabling a victim of domestic violence to remain at the program's shelter for a period exceeding one hundred and eighty days. | In Committee | 03/28/2025 |
| S07224 | Authorizes the reissuance of emergency assistance to needy families with children, safety net assistance, SNAP benefits, or emergency assistance for aged, blind and disabled persons in instances of fraud or theft of benefits. | In Committee | 04/04/2025 |
| S07315 | Allows for SNAP benefits to be used to purchase menstrual products including, but not limited to, sanitary napkins, tampons and panty liners. | In Committee | 04/09/2025 |
| S07473 | Exempts amounts received from any financial settlement for childhood sexual abuse for determining eligibility for or amount of benefits under any program provided under the social security law. | In Committee | 04/17/2025 |
| S07578 | Provides that an applicant for the cooling assistance component of the home energy assistance program shall not be required to demonstrate that the household contains at least one person with a documented medical condition that is exacerbated by extreme heat to be eligible for a cooling assistance component benefit. | In Committee | 04/22/2025 |
| S07612 | Establishes a co-shelter toolkit of best practices, resources, case studies and other information deemed helpful to inform and encourage the implementation and sustenance of co-shelter models for victims of domestic violence and people experiencing homelessness with companion animals; makes related provisions. | In Committee | 04/23/2025 |
| S07632 | Includes households who are fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence under the family homelessness and eviction prevention supplement ("FHEPS") program. | In Committee | 04/24/2025 |
| S07738 | Authorizes certain shelters for victims of domestic violence to be reimbursed for any payment differential for housing a single individual in a room intended for double occupancy where a single occupancy room is not available. | In Committee | 05/02/2025 |
| S07741 | Defines "closed period of eligibility" for purposes of supplemental security income for aged, blind, and disabled persons; includes such time period in the eligibility requirements of such supplemental security income. | In Committee | 05/02/2025 |
| S07754 | Provides that applicants for or recipients of SNAP benefits shall not be subjected to finger imaging as a requirement of the supplemental nutrition assistance program. | In Committee | 05/05/2025 |
| S07943 | Requires the office of temporary and disability assistance to make available skimming warning signs in English and in the twelve languages most commonly spoken by limited English proficient individuals in the state; requires the department of social services to make available information regarding the state food stamp outreach program in English and in the twelve languages most commonly spoken by limited English proficient individuals in the state. | In Committee | 05/14/2025 |
| S08026 | Provides "WiFi service" internet access to all individuals residing in temporary housing; relates to funding for internet service under the ConnectAll digital equity grant program. | In Committee | 05/15/2025 |
| S08045 | Requires the office for the prevention of domestic violence provide informational materials on removing an abuser's access to a smart home and the use of other technology for harassment. | In Committee | 05/15/2025 |
| S08130 | Authorizes the reissuance of SNAP benefits in instances of fraud or theft of such benefits. | In Committee | 05/15/2025 |
| S08179 | Extends current exemptions of income and resources for public assistance programs under the welfare reform act of 1997. | In Committee | 05/19/2025 |
| S08193 | Relates to the composition of the interagency task force on human trafficking and when such reports shall be submitted. | In Committee | 05/20/2025 |
| S08268 | Removes the requirement that any earned income from a homeless family in Westchester county receiving temporary housing assistance be applied to room and board, or to eliminate a need for temporary housing assistance, or as a condition to receive temporary housing assistance. | In Committee | 05/28/2025 |