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A00683 Summary:

BILL NOA00683 

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SAME ASSAME AS S02488

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SPONSORSolages

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COSPNSRSimon, Otis, Lupardo

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §98, Soc Serv L

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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.

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BILL NOA00683 

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01/08/2025referred to social services

01/07/2026referred to social services

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 683

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES, SIMON, OTIS, LUPARDO -- read once and
 referred to the Committee on Social Services

 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to establishing an
 emergency heating energy assistance program benefit

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
 2 98 to read as follows:
 3 § 98. Emergency heating energy assistance program benefit. 1. Defi-
 4 nitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall
 5 have the following meanings:
 6 (a) "Commissioner" shall mean the commissioner of the office of tempo-
 7 rary and disability assistance.
 8 (b) "HEAP" shall mean the low-income home energy assistance program,
 9 as described in section ninety-seven of this title and required by title
 10 26 of the federal omnibus budget reconciliation act of 1981.
 11 2. The commissioner shall establish a state program to provide an
 12 emergency home energy assistance program benefit to households eligible
 13 for a low-income home energy assistance program where such household is
 14 threatened with shut-off or an energy emergency due to nonpayment.
 15 3. To be eligible for a benefit pursuant to this section, the appli-
 16 cant shall document that the applicant:
 17 (a) receives a regular HEAP benefit which is insufficient or unavail-
 18 able to ameliorate the emergency; and
 19 (b) (i) is currently without heating fuel; or
 20 (ii) has a heating fuel supply that will last less than seven calendar
 21 days; or
 22 (iii) has had heat-related utility service disconnected; or
 23 (iv) has heat-related utility service currently eligible for discon-
 24 nection; or

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02161-01-5

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 1 (v) is experiencing an energy emergency due to:
 2 (1) having heat-related utility service arrears more than sixty days
 3 in arrears; or
 4 (2) having outstanding heat-related utility service arrears in excess
 5 of three hundred dollars.
 6 4. For purposes of the annual HEAP state plan, and subject to the
 7 availability of federal funds, a social services district may authorize
 8 one or more household payments per program year in an amount which coin-
 9 cides with the emergency benefits matrix developed annually by the
 10 department of public service for the current program year.
 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 12 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 13 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 14 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
 15 on or before such effective date.

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