What's happening
This bill allows emergency assistance for replacing property lost due to uncontrollable bedbug infestations for public assistance recipients.
Why it matters
Expands emergency aid eligibility. to cover people on public assistance who lose essential property (like furniture and clothing) due to bedbug infestations that can't be controlled by extermination, recognizing that bedbug issues can be as devastating as fires or floods.
Acknowledges the severe impact of uncontrollable bedbug infestations. , treating them as a legitimate cause of property loss that can leave vulnerable families without basic necessities, thus reducing stigma and validating real household crises.
Sets a higher threshold for assistance. by requiring that the infestation must be proven to be unmanageable by ordinary extermination methods, which helps ensure that aid targets the most severe and persistent cases.
May improve health and safety outcomes. for low-income residents by allowing them to replace infested items, potentially preventing ongoing exposure to pests and associated mental and physical health risks.
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Replace Items After Bedbugs
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- Referred to social services
- Referred to social services
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2426
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 22, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to emergency assistance for the replacement of property as a result of a bedbug infestation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 131-a of the social services law, as amended by chapter 298 of the laws of 1971, such subdivision as renumbered by chapter 453 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
(a) replacement of necessary furniture and clothing for persons in need of public assistance who have suffered the loss of such items as the result of fire, flood or other like catastrophe or as the result of a bedbug infestation that cannot be controlled through the use of pesticides, treatments, fumigation, or any other method of extermination by an exterminator, provided provisions therefor cannot otherwise be made;
§ 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 303 of the social services law, as amended by chapter 482 of the laws of 1975, is amended to read as follows:
(a) Replacement or repair, as the case may be, of clothing, furniture, food, fuel and shelter; (including repairs to homes owned by aged, blind, and disabled persons and temporary shelter until necessary repairs are completed or replacement shelter is secured), provided such clothing, furniture, food, fuel or shelter was lost or rendered useless as a result of burglary, theft or vandalism, or as a result of fire, flood or other similar catastrophe which could not have been [forseen] foreseen by such person, and was not under his control, or as the result of a bedbug infestation that cannot be controlled through the use of pesticides, treatments, fumigation, or any other method of extermination by an exterminator. All such losses shall have been reported to and appropriately verified by local officials before such replacement or repair;
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01040-01-9
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