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

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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]

Download: New_York-2021-A08900-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8900--A

                   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 -- committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        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 the shel-
     5  ter allowance equal to the actual rent obligation of  recipients  up  to
     6  one  hundred  percent of the current United States department of housing
     7  and urban development's fair market rent as of the date of  issuance  of
     8  the  shelter  allowance to the recipient for the corresponding unit size
     9  in the district in which the recipient resides.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    11  have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14126-04-2