Bill Text: NY A08009 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Makes vouchers available to eligible families under the family homelessness and eviction protection supplement ("FHEPS") program in social services districts with a population of five million or more.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-12-10 - signed chap.666 [A08009 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A08009-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8009

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 4, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Social Services

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to making  vouchers
          available  under  the  family  homelessness  and  eviction  prevention
          supplement program in social services districts with a  population  of
          five million or more

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new  section
     2  131-bb to read as follows:
     3    §  131-bb.  Family  homelessness  and  eviction  prevention supplement
     4  program. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, for
     5  a local social services district with a population of  five  million  or
     6  more,  the  commissioner  shall  designate  such  local  social services
     7  district to make vouchers available to eligible families under the fami-
     8  ly homelessness and eviction prevention  supplement  ("FHEPS")  program,
     9  and  to administer the program in accordance with a plan approved pursu-
    10  ant to 18 N.Y.C.R.R. § 352.3(a)(3), provided however, that  the  maximum
    11  rent  for  such vouchers shall be set at the United States department of
    12  housing and urban development's fair market rent level. The state  shall
    13  reimburse the local social services district for payments made under the
    14  FHEPS program in a manner consistent with title two of this article.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11306-01-1
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