Bill Text: NY S00015 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes certain shelters for victims of domestic violence to be reimbursed for any payment differential for housing a single individual in a room intended for double occupancy where a single occupancy room is not available.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-06 - SUBSTITUTED BY A2583A [S00015 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00015-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          15--A
            Cal. No. 1185

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. GOUNARDES, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, SALAZAR -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Social  Services -- recommitted to the Committee on Social Services in
          accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from  said
          committee  and  committed  to  the  Committee  on Finance -- committee
          discharged and said bill  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Rules  --
          ordered  to  a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining
          its place in the order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the social services  law,  in  relation  to  authorizing
          certain shelters to be reimbursed for housing a single individual in a
          room intended for double occupancy

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

     1    Section 1. Section 131-u of the social  services  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
     3    3.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision of law to the contrary, any
     4  residential program for victims of  domestic  violence,  as  defined  in
     5  section four hundred fifty-nine-a of this chapter, which provides tempo-
     6  rary  housing assistance to a single individual who meets such program's
     7  necessary eligibility requirements, shall be reimbursed for any  payment
     8  differential  for  housing  a  single  individual in a room intended for
     9  double occupancy, if no other room  intended  for  single  occupancy  is
    10  available within the facility.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



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