Bill Text: NY A08900 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires shelter allowances be set at up to one hundred percent of the fair market rent for the local social services district.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-22 - reported referred to ways and means [A08900 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8900

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 19, 2022
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        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 requiring  shel-
          ter  allowances be set at up to one hundred percent of the fair market
          rent for the local social services district

          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-cc to read as follows:
     3    § 131-cc. Shelter allowances. Notwithstanding any other  provision  of
     4  law  to  the contrary, local social services districts shall pay shelter
     5  allowance equal to the actual rent obligation of recipients  up  to  one
     6  hundred  percent  of the current United States department of housing and
     7  urban development's fair market rent level corresponding to  the  social
     8  services district in which the recipient resides.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14126-02-2