New York S 6643: Relates to the distribution of food stamp applications to emergency feeding programs

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S06643 Summary:

BILL NOS06643 

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Add §95-b, Soc Serv L

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Relates to the distribution of food stamp applications to emergency feeding programs.

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03/19/2025REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 6643

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 19, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services

 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the distribution
 of food stamp applications to emergency feeding programs

 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 95-b to read as follows:
 3 § 95-b. Food stamp applications at emergency feeding programs. 1. The
 4 commissioner shall arrange for the distribution of applications for the
 5 food stamp program to all state-funded emergency feeding programs. For
 6 purposes of this section, "emergency feeding program" means a food
 7 pantry or soup kitchen.
 8 2. Beginning January first, two thousand twenty-six, and on the first
 9 business day of each succeeding calendar quarter thereafter, the commis-
 10 sioner shall submit a report to the governor and the legislature indi-
 11 cating the emergency feeding programs to which it distributed applica-
 12 tions in the prior calendar quarter and the number of applications
 13 distributed to each emergency feeding program.
 14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 15 have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10008-01-5

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