Bill Text: NJ A2185 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires DCA to continuously maintain open enrollment period for federal Housing Choice Voucher Program pre-applications.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-27 - Reported and Referred to Assembly Appropriations Committee [A2185 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2020-A2185-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
219th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2020 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman RAJ MUKHERJI
District 33 (Hudson)
Assemblywoman SHANIQUE SPEIGHT
District 29 (Essex)
SYNOPSIS
Requires DCA to continuously maintain open enrollment period for federal Housing Choice Voucher Program pre-applications.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
An Act concerning pre-applications for certain State-administered federal rental assistance and supplementing P.L.1966, c.293 (C.52:27D-1 et seq.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. The Commissioner of Community Affairs shall, to the extent permitted by federal law, continuously maintain an open enrollment period in which rental assistance applicants may submit pre-applications to be placed on the waiting list for the federal Housing Choice Voucher Program, authorized pursuant to section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. s.1437f), that is administered by the department.
2. This act shall take effect on the first day of the third month next following enactment, except the commissioner may take any anticipatory administrative action in advance as shall be necessary for the implementation of this act.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the Department of Community Affairs (DCA) to continuously maintain an open enrollment period for the federal Housing Choice Voucher Program administered by the department.
Currently, federal and State law does not establish a specific length of time in which program enrollment periods are required to remain open. The bill provides that absent a federal requirement to the contrary, the Housing Choice Voucher Program administered by the DCA is required to maintain a year-long open enrollment period. The bill also would allow persons to submit pre-applications for the Housing Choice Voucher Program at any time and thereby be placed on the program's waiting list.
