A4365 • 2025

Relates to conducting appeals, within the department of family assistance, by means of electronic communications systems conference with independent hearing officers

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Sponsor: Andrew Molitor
Last action: 2026-05-27
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to conducting appeals, within the department of family assistance, by means of electronic communications systems conference with independent hearing officers

Relates to conducting appeals, within the department of family assistance, by means of electronic communications systems conference with independent hearing officers Permits appeals to the department of family assistance to be conducted by means of a conference telephone, video conference or similar communications systems with and by independent hearing officers.

What This Bill Does

Relates to conducting appeals, within the department of family assistance, by means of electronic communications systems conference with independent hearing officers Permits appeals to the department of family assistance to be conducted by means of a conference telephone, video conference or similar communications systems with and by independent hearing officers.

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Bill History

2026-05-27 Assembly
HELD FOR CONSIDERATION IN SOCIAL SERVICES
2026-01-07 Assembly
REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES
2025-02-04 Assembly
REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES

Official Summary Text

Relates to conducting appeals, within the department of family assistance, by means of electronic communications systems conference with independent hearing officers
Permits appeals to the department of family assistance to be conducted by means of a conference telephone, video conference or similar communications systems with and by independent hearing officers.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          4365

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                    February 4, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. MOLITOR -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Social Services

        AN ACT to amend the social  services  law,  in  relation  to  permitting
          appeals  to  the  department  of  family assistance to be conducted by
          means of a conference telephone, video conference or similar  communi-
          cations systems with and by independent hearing officers

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 22 of the social services law,  as
     2  added by chapter 473 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
     3    2.  In  connection  with  any appeal pursuant to this section, with or
     4  without a fair  hearing,  [the]  EACH  commissioner  may  designate  and
     5  authorize  one or more appropriate members of [his] THEIR staff OR INDE-
     6  PENDENT FAIR HEARING OFFICERS to consider and decide such  appeals.  Any
     7  staff  member  OR  INDEPENDENT  FAIR  HEARING  OFFICER so designated and
     8  authorized shall have authority to decide such appeals on behalf of  the
     9  commissioner  with  the same force and effect as if the commissioner had
    10  made the decisions.  Fair hearings held in connection with such  appeals
    11  shall  be  held  on behalf of the commissioner by members of [his] THEIR
    12  staff OR INDEPENDENT FAIR HEARING OFFICERS who  are  employed  for  such
    13  purposes or who have been designated and authorized by [him] THEM there-
    14  for.    THE FAIR HEARING MAY BE CONDUCTED BY MEANS OF A CONFERENCE TELE-
    15  PHONE, VIDEO CONFERENCE EQUIPMENT OR  SIMILAR  COMMUNICATIONS  EQUIPMENT
    16  ALLOWING ALL PERSONS PARTICIPATING IN SUCH HEARING TO HEAR EACH OTHER AT
    17  THE  SAME  TIME.  The provisions of this subdivision shall apply to fair
    18  hearings conducted pursuant to subdivision eight of section four hundred
    19  twenty-two of this chapter, and to any hearing required pursuant to this
    20  chapter concerning the denial, suspension or revocation of  any  permit,
    21  certificate or license, and to any hearing held pursuant to section four
    22  hundred fifty-five of this chapter.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06772-01-5