File #: Int 0594-2005    Version: Name: Maximizing the number of eligible New Yorkers enrolled in the federal food stamp program.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on General Welfare
On agenda: 3/9/2005
Enactment date: 8/17/2005 Law number: 2005/081
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to maximizing the number of eligible New Yorkers enrolled in the federal food stamp program by developing an on-line application system.
Sponsors: Eric N. Gioia, Helen D. Foster, James F. Gennaro, Alan J. Gerson, Sara M. Gonzalez, Letitia James, G. Oliver Koppell, Bill Perkins, Philip Reed, Larry B. Seabrook, Kendall Stewart, David I. Weprin, Christine C. Quinn, Miguel Martinez, Bill De Blasio, John C. Liu, Gale A. Brewer, Maria Del Carmen Arroyo, Robert Jackson, James Sanders, Jr., Betsy Gotbaum
Council Member Sponsors: 21
Attachments: 1. Committee Report 4/21/05, 2. Hearing Transcript 4/21/05, 3. Committee Report 6/21/05, 4. Hearing Transcript 6/21/05, 5. Committee Report 8/17/05, 6. Hearing Transcript 8/17/05, 7. Fiscal Impact Statement, 8. Mayor's Veto Message, 9. Fiscal Impact Statement-A, 10. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 6/23/05, 11. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 8/17/05, 12. Local Law
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
8/17/2005AEric N. Gioia City Council Overridden by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
8/17/2005AEric N. Gioia Committee on General Welfare Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/17/2005AEric N. Gioia Committee on General Welfare Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
7/21/2005AEric N. Gioia Mayor Vetoed by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/23/2005AEric N. Gioia City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/23/2005AEric N. Gioia City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
6/21/2005*Eric N. Gioia Committee on General Welfare Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/21/2005*Eric N. Gioia Committee on General Welfare Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/21/2005*Eric N. Gioia Committee on General Welfare Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/21/2005AEric N. Gioia Committee on General Welfare Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
4/21/2005*Eric N. Gioia Committee on General Welfare Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/21/2005*Eric N. Gioia Committee on General Welfare Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/9/2005*Eric N. Gioia City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/9/2005*Eric N. Gioia City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 594-A

 

By Council Members Gioia, Foster, Gennaro, Gerson, Gonzalez, James, Koppell,  Perkins, Reed, Seabrook, Stewart, Weprin, Quinn, Martinez, DeBlasio, Liu, Brewer, Arroyo, Jackson, Sanders Jr. and The Public Advocate (Ms. Gotbaum)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to maximizing the number of eligible New Yorkers enrolled in the federal food stamp program by developing an on-line application system.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 1 of title 21 of the administrative code of the city of New York is hereby amended by adding a new section 21-132 to read as follows:

                     §21-132.   Internet submission of applications for the food stamp program.  a.  Within one year of the effective date of the local law that added this section, the commissioner shall develop a procedure that enables applicants for the federal food stamp program to access and submit applications using the internet.  

b.  To the extent that the requirement set forth in subdivision a of this section is subject to the approval of the state office of temporary and disability assistance or the united states department of agriculture or any other state or federal agency, the commissioner shall request such permission within 90 days of the effective date of the local law that added this section.

§2. This local law shall take effect thirty days after its enactment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

J.D.S.

L.S. 2192

 

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