Bill Text: NY S08223 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Makes migrant youth under the age of 25 who are receiving runaway and homeless youth services eligible to receive housing vouchers under the family homelessness and eviction prevention supplement ("FHEPS") program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-16 - REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES [S08223 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08223-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8223

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 16, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- 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  family
          homelessness  and  eviction  prevention  supplement ("FHEPS") vouchers
          available to migrant youth

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  131-bb  of  the social services law, as added by
     2  chapter 666 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 131-bb.  Family  homelessness  and  eviction  prevention  supplement
     4  program.  1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,
     5  for a local social services district with a population of  five  million
     6  or  more,  the  commissioner  shall designate such local social services
     7  district to make vouchers available to eligible families under the fami-
     8  ly homelessness and eviction prevention  supplement  ("FHEPS")  program,
     9  and  to administer the program in accordance with a plan approved pursu-
    10  ant to 18 N.Y.C.R.R. § 352.3(a)(3), provided however, that  the  maximum
    11  rent  for  such vouchers shall be set at the United States department of
    12  housing and urban development's fair market rent level.
    13    2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,  vouch-
    14  ers  provided  under  the  family  homelessness  and eviction prevention
    15  supplement ("FHEPS") program under subdivision one of this section shall
    16  be made available to eligible runaway and homeless youth under  the  age
    17  of  twenty-five  who  are  receiving,  or  who have previously received,
    18  services under section five hundred thirty-two-d of the  executive  law.
    19  Such voucher program shall pay the full rent for undocumented youth, and
    20  partial  rent  for documented youth who have stable employment as deter-
    21  mined by the commissioner, who are otherwise eligible under this  subdi-
    22  vision.  Such  voucher program shall be administered by the commissioner
    23  in accordance with  a  plan  approved  pursuant  to  18  N.Y.C.R.R.    §
    24  352.3(a)(3),  provided  however, that the maximum rent for such vouchers
    25  shall be set at the United States department of housing and urban devel-
    26  opment's fair market rent level.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09313-01-3
        S. 8223                             2

     1    3. The state shall reimburse the local social  services  district  for
     2  payments  made under the FHEPS program in a manner consistent with title
     3  two of this article.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.