New York A 3935: Relates to assistance programs for individuals being released from correctional facilities

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A03935 Summary:

BILL NOA03935 

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SAME ASSAME AS S05059

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SPONSORHevesi

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COSPNSRGonzalez-Rojas, Lasher, Burdick, Forrest, Reyes, De Los Santos, Gallagher, Cruz, Raga, Kelles,
 Levenberg, McDonald, Rosenthal, Torres, Maher, Magnarelli, Hooks, Lavine, Simon, Powers

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §158, Soc Serv L; amd §112, add §500-q, Cor L

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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.

Go to top A03935 Actions:

BILL NOA03935 

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01/30/2025referred to correction

01/07/2026referred to correction

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Go to topA03935 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3935

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 30, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Correction

 AN ACT to amend the social services law and the correction law, in
 relation to assistance programs for individuals being released from
 correctional facilities

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 158 of the social services law, as
 2 amended by section 1 of part U of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, is
 3 amended to read as follows:
 4 4. (a) Social services officials shall determine eligibility for safe-
 5 ty net assistance within thirty days of receiving an application for
 6 safety net assistance. Such officials shall notify applicants of safety
 7 net assistance about the availability of assistance to meet emergency
 8 circumstances or to prevent eviction.
 9 (b) Within seventy-two hours from when the state board of parole
 10 approves the residence of a person that the department of corrections
 11 and community supervision is set to release, the correctional facility's
 12 benefits navigator shall complete such person's application for safety
 13 net assistance. For the purposes of this paragraph, the term "correc-
 14 tional facility" shall have the same meaning as defined by section two
 15 of the correction law.
 16 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 112 of the correction law, as amended by
 17 chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
 18 2. The commissioner shall have the management and control of persons
 19 released on community supervision and of all matters relating to such
 20 persons' effective reentry into the community, as well as all contracts
 21 and fiscal concerns thereof. The commissioner shall have the power and
 22 it shall be [his or her] the commissioner's duty to inquire into all
 23 matters connected with said community supervision. The commissioner
 24 shall make such rules and regulations, not in conflict with the statutes
 25 of this state, for the governance of the officers and other employees of
 26 the department assigned to said community supervision, and in regard to
 27 the duties to be performed by them, as [he or she] the commissioner

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05057-01-5

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 1 deems proper and shall cause such rules and regulations to be furnished
 2 to each employee assigned to perform community supervision. The commis-
 3 sioner shall also prescribe a system of accounts and records to be kept,
 4 which shall be uniform. The commissioner shall also make rules and regu-
 5 lations for a record of photographs and other means of identifying each
 6 incarcerated individual released to community supervision. The commis-
 7 sioner shall appoint officers and other employees of the department who
 8 are assigned to perform community supervision. Where applicable, a
 9 correctional facility shall provide each person with applications for
 10 public assistance, supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP)
 11 under section ninety-five of th