Exempts income earned by a head of household or any person in the household from certain job training or adult education programs from the determination of need for public assistance programs.
Increases the personal needs allowance for residents of certain residential health care facilities from fifty-five dollars to one hundred dollars per month.
Requires social services districts to distribute educational materials pertaining to sexual health, including information on HIV prevention and pre-exposure prophylaxis to individuals enrolled in Medicaid.
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.
Relates to defining members of the same family or household for purposes of family offenses; includes persons who: are related to a child in common or to a person in an intimate relationship; and are currently living together in a family-type relationship or formerly lived together in a family-type relationship.
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).
Exempts income earned by a head of household or any person in the household from certain job training or adult education programs from the determination of need for public assistance programs.
Establishes a task force to examine, evaluate and determine the feasibility of establishing a state-funded version of SNAP; requires the task force to report its findings and a policy brief to the governor and the legislature.
Requires recipients of public assistance benefits submit to pre-qualification drug screening and testing, random drug testing, reasonable suspicion drug testing and resumption of benefits drug testing.