Bill Text: NY A05909 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to shelter allowance calculation for participants in the federal housing choice voucher program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-12-15 - enacting clause stricken [A05909 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A05909-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5909 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 17, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. KAVANAGH -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Social Services AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the calculation of the shelter allowance for individuals and families receiving public assistance and participating in the Section 8 voucher program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraphs (d) and (e) of subdivision 2 of section 131-a of 2 the social services law, as relettered by chapter 598 of the laws of 3 2007, are relettered paragraphs (e) and (f) and a new paragraph (d) is 4 added to read as follows: 5 (d) Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter or of any other law 6 or regulation to the contrary, the amount to be included in the standard 7 of need for shelter for an eligible tenant who participates in the 8 federal Section 8 housing choice voucher program shall be the maximum 9 shelter allowance prescribed by regulations of the department for non- 10 participants in such voucher program residing in the social services 11 district in which the participant in such voucher program resides. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02934-01-7