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NY A 161

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Directs a study on the impact of increased wages on eligibility for income based services, programs and subsidies

New York · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Directs the commissioner of the department of labor, in consultation with the commissioners of the office of temporary and disability assistance, the department of health, the office of children and family services, and the department of taxation and finance to conduct a study on income eligibility limits for public benefits to assist the poor and the impact that rising wages has or will have on the eligibility of the working poor to receive such benefits.

Introduced
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Status date
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Latest action
2026-01-07 — REFERRED TO LABOR
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Sponsors

  • Simcha Eichensteinprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-01-08

    REFERRED TO LABOR

    referral-committee

  2. 2026-01-07

    REFERRED TO LABOR

    referral-committee

Versions

Documents

Votes

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Related bills

  • Prior session: A 9921not in this corpus
  • Prior session: A 6925
  • Prior session: A 231

Official source

https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/bills/2025-2026/A161?summary=&detail=

Attribution

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