The New York City Council - File #: Int 1659-2019

• File #: Int 1659-2019
• Version: A
• Name: Plan to identify and enroll seniors eligible for supplemental nutrition assistance benefits.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Enacted
• Committee: Committee on General Welfare
• On agenda: 8/14/2019
• Enactment date: 3/13/2020
• Law number: 2020/039
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to a plan to identify and enroll seniors eligible for supplemental nutrition assistance benefits
• Sponsors: Margaret S. Chin, Ben Kallos, Diana I. Ayala, Vanessa L. Gibson, Brad S. Lander, Keith Powers , Carlina Rivera , Kalman Yeger , Andrew Cohen, Andy L. King, Helen K. Rosenthal, Paul A. Vallone, Robert F. Holden, Stephen T. Levin, Mathieu Eugene
• Council Member Sponsors: 15
• Summary: This bill would require the Department of Social Services, working in collaboration with the Department for the Aging, to develop a plan to identify and enroll seniors who are eligible for supplement nutritional assistance benefits, but who are not yet enrolled to receive such benefits.
• Indexes: Report Required

Date	Ver.	Prime Sponsor	Action By	Action	Result
3/13/2020	A	Margaret S. Chin	City Council	Returned Unsigned by Mayor
3/13/2020	A	Margaret S. Chin	Administration	City Charter Rule Adopted
2/11/2020	A	Margaret S. Chin	City Council	Sent to Mayor by Council
2/11/2020	A	Margaret S. Chin	City Council	Approved by Council	Pass
2/10/2020	*	Margaret S. Chin	Committee on General Welfare	Hearing Held by Committee
2/10/2020	*	Margaret S. Chin	Committee on General Welfare	Amendment Proposed by Comm
2/10/2020	*	Margaret S. Chin	Committee on General Welfare	Amended by Committee
2/10/2020	A	Margaret S. Chin	Committee on General Welfare	Approved by Committee	Pass
9/18/2019	*	Margaret S. Chin	Committee on Education	Laid Over by Committee
9/18/2019	*	Margaret S. Chin	Committee on Education	Hearing Held by Committee
9/18/2019	*	Margaret S. Chin	Committee on Economic Development	Laid Over by Committee
9/18/2019	*	Margaret S. Chin	Committee on Economic Development	Hearing Held by Committee
9/18/2019	*	Margaret S. Chin	Committee on General Welfare	Laid Over by Committee
9/18/2019	*	Margaret S. Chin	Committee on General Welfare	Hearing Held by Committee
8/14/2019	*	Margaret S. Chin	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
8/14/2019	*	Margaret S. Chin	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 1659-A

By Council Members Chin, Kallos, Ayala, Gibson, Lander, Powers, Rivera, Yeger, Cohen, King, Rosenthal, Vallone, Holden, Levin and Eugene

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to a plan to identify and enroll seniors eligible for supplemental nutrition assistance benefits

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Subdivision d of section 21-131.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 134 for the year 2017, is amended to read as follows:

d. Beginning April 1, 2021[February 1, 2018], and annually thereafter, the department, in coordination with the department for the aging, shall submit a report to the speaker of the city council regarding the department's activities with respect to supplemental nutrition assistance enrollment and recertification for seniors. Such report shall provide an overview of the department's activities with respect to supplemental nutrition assistance enrollment and recertification for seniors, including the public campaign and the enrollment and recertification program, and shall include (i) the number of seniors enrolled in the supplemental nutrition assistance program in the previous calendar year; (ii) the number of seniors recertified for the supplemental nutrition assistance program in the previous calendar year; [and] (iii) a comparison of the annual rate of enrollment for seniors versus the number of seniors in the city that the department estimates are likely to be eligible based on readily available community data such as census data; (iv) identification of specific barriers to enrolling and recertifying eligible seniors who would benefit from participation in the supplemental nutrition assistance program, with particular consideration given to seniors who are unable to travel to senior centers, whether due to physical limitation or lack of access to transportation or other reasons, and seniors who are not receiving other social services; and (v) a plan, developed in collaboration with the department for the aging, to overcome such barriers to enrollment and recertification to reach eligible seniors who are unable to travel to senior centers and who are not receiving other social services. [Beginning on February 1, 2019, the] Such report shall also indicate how the data required by this subdivision compares to the previous year. The report shall further indicate the method by which seniors enrolled in or recertified for the supplemental nutrition assistance program, whether online, by mobile application, by telephone, by paper application, or by other means.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

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