Bill Text: NY A09806 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-23 - referred to children and families [A09806 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A09806-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9806
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 23, 2014
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       Introduced by M. of A. CAMARA -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Children and Families
       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,  and  shall be considered a special grant. The
   15  provisions of this paragraph shall not be construed to limit such  offi-
   16  cial's authority to provide other preventive services.
   17    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15066-01-4