A3399 • 2025

Requires screening incarcerated individuals for eligibility for public benefits prior to release

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas
Last action: 2026-05-29
Official status: Assembly Floor Calendar
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires screening incarcerated individuals for eligibility for public benefits prior to release

Requires screening incarcerated individuals for eligibility for public benefits prior to release Requires screening incarcerated individuals for eligibility for public benefits prior to release and assistance in applying for such programs; requires officials to seek waivers from the USDA for eligibility for such program.

What This Bill Does

Requires screening incarcerated individuals for eligibility for public benefits prior to release Requires screening incarcerated individuals for eligibility for public benefits prior to release and assistance in applying for such programs; requires officials to seek waivers from the USDA for eligibility for such program.

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Bill History

2026-05-29 Assembly
SUBSTITUTED BY S5265A
2026-05-28 Assembly
REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES
2026-05-28 Assembly
REPORTED
2026-05-28 Assembly
RULES REPORT CAL.222
2026-05-28 Assembly
ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.222
2026-04-21 Assembly
REPORTED REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS
2026-04-15 Assembly
AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO CORRECTION
2026-04-15 Assembly
PRINT NUMBER 3399A
2026-01-07 Assembly
REFERRED TO CORRECTION
2025-01-27 Assembly
REFERRED TO CORRECTION

Official Summary Text

Requires screening incarcerated individuals for eligibility for public benefits prior to release
Requires screening incarcerated individuals for eligibility for public benefits prior to release and assistance in applying for such programs; requires officials to seek waivers from the USDA for eligibility for such program.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          3399

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                    January 27, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. GONZALEZ-ROJAS, HEVESI, BURDICK, LEVENBERG --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Correction

        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to screening incarcerat-
          ed individuals for eligibility in the supplemental  nutrition  assist-
          ance program prior to release

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

     1    Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 619-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 619-A. SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ACCESS PROGRAM SCREENING.  IT SHALL BE
     4  THE DUTY OF AN OFFICIAL OF ANY INSTITUTION UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE
     5  COMMISSIONER TO COOPERATE WITH AN AUTHORIZED AGENCY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
     6  SOCIAL SERVICES TO SCREEN INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS FOR  ELIGIBILITY  FOR
     7  THE  SUPPLEMENTAL  NUTRITION  ACCESS PROGRAM PURSUANT TO SECTION NINETY-
     8  FIVE OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW THIRTY DAYS  PRIOR  TO  RELEASE  AND  TO
     9  ASSIST  SUCH  ELIGIBLE  INDIVIDUALS  IN  APPLYING FOR SUCH PROGRAM. SUCH
    10  OFFICIAL, IN COOPERATION WITH THE  AUTHORIZED  AGENCY,  SHALL  SEEK  ANY
    11  NECESSARY  WAIVERS  FROM  THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE TO
    12  SUSPEND THE THREE-MONTH TIME LIMIT FOR INDIVIDUALS IN AREAS WITHOUT WORK
    13  AND TO ENSURE THAT INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS HAVE ONE YEAR OF ELIGIBILITY
    14  UPON RELEASE.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06100-01-5