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Assembly Bill A4941

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Eliminates the fifty per centum match requirement in a single room occupancy support services project for projects in municipalities of less than one million

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2009-A4941 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Social Services
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง45-e, Soc Serv L

2009-A4941 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Eliminates the fifty per centum match requirement in a single room occupancy support services project for projects in municipalities of less than one million.

2009-A4941 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4941

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 10, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. V. LOPEZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Social Services

AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to eliminating the
  fifty per centum  match  requirement  in  the  single  room  occupancy
  support services program for certain projects

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 45-e of the social services law, as added by  chap-
ter 765 of the laws of 1987, is amended to read as follows:
  S 45-e. Reimbursement. Expenditures made by a social services district
for  grants made pursuant to this title shall be reimbursed by the state
at the rate of fifty per centum, after  first  deducting  therefrom  any
federal  funds  properly  received or to be received on account thereof;
provided,  however,  that  in  lieu  of  local  financial  participation
required  by  this  section, the commissioner OF THE OFFICE OF TEMPORARY
AND DISABILITY ASSISTANCE may  permit  a  social  services  district  to
substitute  actual  or  in-kind expenditures incurred by eligible appli-
cants in the operation of eligible projects if [the]  SUCH  commissioner
determines that:
  (a) local social services district financial participation is unavail-
able  in  all  or  a portion of such expenditures although such district
financial participation in the single room  occupancy  support  services
program  equals  or exceeds such financial participation in the previous
program year; and
  (b) such eligible projects require  financial  assistance  under  this
title to ensure the financial viability of supportive services programs.
  Actual or in-kind expenditures made by an eligible applicant receiving
assistance pursuant to section forty-five-c of this title shall be reim-
bursed by the state at the rate of [fifty per centum after first deduct-
ing  therefrom  any federal funds properly received or to be received on
account thereof] ONE HUNDRED PER  CENTUM  IF  THE  ELIGIBLE  PROJECT  IS

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08405-01-9

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