Provides that applicants or recipients for SNAP benefits shall not be subjected to finger imaging as a requirement of the supplemental nutrition assistance program

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Provides that applicants or recipients for SNAP benefits shall not be subjected to finger imaging as a requirement of the supplemental nutrition assistance program

Provides that applicants or recipients for SNAP benefits shall not be subjected to finger imaging as a requirement of the supplemental nutrition assistance program Provides that applicants for or recipients of SNAP benefits shall not be subjected to finger imaging as a requirement of the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

What This Bill Does

• Provides that applicants or recipients for SNAP benefits shall not be subjected to finger imaging as a requirement of the supplemental nutrition assistance program Provides that applicants for or recipients of SNAP benefits shall not be subjected to finger imaging as a requirement of the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

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Official Summary Text

Provides that applicants or recipients for SNAP benefits shall not be subjected to finger imaging as a requirement of the supplemental nutrition assistance program
Provides that applicants for or recipients of SNAP benefits shall not be subjected to finger imaging as a requirement of the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

Current Bill Text

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2538

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                    January 17, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. DAVILA, CUNNINGHAM -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Social Services

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to  finger  imaging
          for food stamps recipients

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 95 of the social services  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
     3    (D) NO COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SERVICES SHALL REQUIRE APPLICANTS FOR OR
     4  RECIPIENTS  OF  FOOD  STAMPS  TO  BE  SUBJECTED  TO  FINGER IMAGING AS A
     5  REQUIREMENT OF THE FOOD STAMP PROGRAM.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect September 1, 2026.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04592-01-5