Bill Text: NY S01631 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to making certain housing programs available regardless of immigration status; provides that local social services districts in a city with a population of five million or more shall be permitted to offer certain housing programs to individuals or families who would be eligible but for a federal law restricting eligibility based on immigration.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES [S01631 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01631-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1631

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to  making  certain
          housing programs available regardless of immigration status

          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-bbb to read as follows:
     3    §  131-bbb.  Local social services housing programs in accordance with
     4  subsection d of 8 U.S.C. 1621. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of
     5  law to the contrary, for a local social services district with  a  popu-
     6  lation  of  five  million  or  more,  the commissioner shall permit such
     7  district to make the program set forth in chapter ten  of  title  sixty-
     8  eight  of  the  rules of the city of New York, or any successor program,
     9  available to families and individuals who would be eligible but for such
    10  federal law restricting eligibility for such  benefits  based  on  immi-
    11  gration  status; and to administer the program in accordance with a plan
    12  approved pursuant to 18 N.Y.C.R.R. § 352.3(a)(3).
    13    2. Funds appropriated by New York state for services and expenses of a
    14  program to provide shelter supplements at local  option  to  individuals
    15  and families regardless of immigration status shall be authorized by the
    16  department  to  reimburse  a local social services district with a popu-
    17  lation of five million or more to fund the program set forth in subdivi-
    18  sion one of this section pursuant to the  approved  plan  provided  that
    19  funds  are  first  used to reimburse rental costs above the maximum rent
    20  levels in  place as of January first, two thousand twenty-one up to  the
    21  United  States department of housing and urban development's fair market
    22  rent level for the family homelessness and eviction  prevention  supple-
    23  ment pursuant to section one hundred thirty-one-bb of this title.
    24    § 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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