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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. DAVILA, CUNNINGHAM -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Social Services
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation  to  reimbursements
   for domestic violence services
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 131-u of the social services  law,
 as  amended by section 3 of part J of chapter 56 of the laws of 2019, is
 amended to read as follows:
   2. The department shall annually establish, subject to the approval of
 the director of the budget, a daily rate of reimbursement for each resi-
 dential program for victims of domestic violence, as defined in  article
 six-A  of this chapter, certified by the department which provides emer-
 gency shelter and services to persons eligible for such emergency  shel-
 ter  and  services  pursuant to this section. A social services district
 [financially responsible for a victim of domestic violence] shall  reim-
 burse  a  residential  program  for victims of domestic violence for the
 costs of emergency shelter and services provided to such victim  at  the
 daily  reimbursement  rate  established by the department reduced by any
 other STATE OR FEDERAL FUNDS PROVIDED FOR SUCH  reimbursement  available
 for  such costs.   PROVIDED HOWEVER, LOCAL SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICTS AND
 RESIDENTIAL PROGRAMS FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC  VIOLENCE  SHALL  BE  REIM-
 BURSED  AT ONE HUNDRED PERCENT FOR ANY ADDITIONAL COSTS INCURRED PROVID-
 ING SHELTER AND SERVICES TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AS A RESULT  OF
 AMENDMENTS MADE TO THIS SECTION PURSUANT TO SECTIONS ONE AND TWO OF PART
 J  OF  CHAPTER  FIFTY-SIX OF THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND NINETEEN. PROVIDED
 HOWEVER, SUCH FUNDS UTILIZED BY THE STATE FOR SUCH  REIMBURSEMENT  SHALL
 NOT REDUCE EXPENDITURES PROVIDED FOR STATE SERVICES ELIGIBLE UNDER TITLE
 XX OF THE FEDERAL SOCIAL SECURITY ACT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2026.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07164-01-5