Bill Text: NY A07756 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Increases from $300 to $600 the monthly rent subsidy payable for housing for a foster child living independently in certain circumstances; doesn't limit those from living with roommates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-12 - print number 7756a [A07756 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A07756-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7756--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 26, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. HEVESI, CLARK -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Children and Families -- recommitted to the Committee  on
          Children  and  Families  in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to increasing from
          $300 a month to $600 a month the rent  subsidy  payable  to  a  foster
          child living independently
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 5  of  section  409-a  of  the
     2  social  services  law, as amended by chapter 339 of the laws of 1993, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (c) Notwithstanding any other  provision  of  this  section,  where  a
     5  social  services  official determines that a lack of adequate housing is
     6  the primary factor preventing the discharge of a child or children  from
     7  foster  care  including,  but  not limited to, children with the goal of
     8  discharge to independent living, preventive services shall  include,  in
     9  addition  to  any  other  payments  or  benefits received by the family,
    10  special cash grants in  the  form  of  rent  subsidies,  including  rent
    11  arrears, or any other assistance, sufficient to obtain adequate housing.
    12  Such  rent  subsidies  or assistance shall not exceed the sum of [three]
    13  six hundred dollars per month, shall not be provided  for  a  period  of
    14  more  than  three years, may be provided up to age twenty-four for youth
    15  discharged from foster care, and shall be considered  a  special  grant.
    16  Nothing  in  this  paragraph  shall be construed to limit the ability of
    17  those using the rent subsidy to live with roommates. The  provisions  of
    18  this paragraph shall not be construed to limit such official's authority
    19  to provide other preventive services.
    20    §  2.  Subdivision  7  of section 409-a of the social services law, as
    21  added by section 83 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as follows:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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