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Assembly Bill A8900A

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires shelter allowances be set at up to one hundred percent of the fair market rent for the local social services district

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2021-A8900 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8632
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Add §131-cc, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2023-2024: A5543, S2982
2025-2026: A1507, S1454

2021-A8900 - Summary

Requires shelter allowances be set at up to one hundred percent of the fair market rent for the local social services district.

2021-A8900 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8900
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 19, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Social Services
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring  shel-
   ter  allowances be set at up to one hundred percent of the fair market
   rent for the local social services district
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
 131-cc to read as follows:
   § 131-CC. SHELTER ALLOWANCES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER  PROVISION  OF
 LAW  TO  THE CONTRARY, LOCAL SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICTS SHALL PAY SHELTER
 ALLOWANCE EQUAL TO THE ACTUAL RENT OBLIGATION OF RECIPIENTS  UP  TO  ONE
 HUNDRED  PERCENT  OF THE CURRENT UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
 URBAN DEVELOPMENT'S FAIR MARKET RENT LEVEL CORRESPONDING TO  THE  SOCIAL
 SERVICES DISTRICT IN WHICH THE RECIPIENT RESIDES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14126-02-2

2021-A8900A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8632
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Add §131-cc, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2023-2024: A5543, S2982
2025-2026: A1507, S1454

2021-A8900A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires shelter allowances be set at up to one hundred percent of the fair market rent for the local social services district.

2021-A8900A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8900--A
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 19, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Social Services -- committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring shel-
   ter allowances be set at up to one hundred percent of the fair  market
   rent for the local social services district

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new  section
 131-cc to read as follows:
   §  131-CC.  SHELTER ALLOWANCES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF
 LAW TO THE CONTRARY, LOCAL SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICTS SHALL PAY THE SHEL-
 TER ALLOWANCE EQUAL TO THE ACTUAL RENT OBLIGATION OF  RECIPIENTS  UP  TO
 ONE  HUNDRED  PERCENT OF THE CURRENT UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING
 AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT'S FAIR MARKET RENT AS OF THE DATE OF  ISSUANCE  OF
 THE  SHELTER  ALLOWANCE TO THE RECIPIENT FOR THE CORRESPONDING UNIT SIZE
 IN THE DISTRICT IN WHICH THE RECIPIENT RESIDES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14126-04-2

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