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Senate Bill S7632

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Includes households who are fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence under the family homelessness and eviction prevention supplement ("FHEPS") program

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2025-S7632 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Social Services
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §131-bb, Soc Serv L

2025-S7632 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes households who are fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence under the family homelessness and eviction prevention supplement ("FHEPS") program.

2025-S7632 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S7632 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7632
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 24, 2025
                                ___________
 
 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 including house-
   holds who are fleeing or attempting to flee  domestic  violence  under
   the  family  homelessness and eviction prevention supplement ("FHEPS")
   program
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  131-bb  of  the social services law, as added by
 chapter 666 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   § 131-bb.  Family  homelessness  and  eviction  prevention  supplement
 program. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, for
 a  local  social  services district with a population of five million or
 more, the  commissioner  shall  designate  such  local  social  services
 district  to  make  vouchers  available  to eligible families, INCLUDING
 HOUSEHOLDS WHO ARE FLEEING OR  ATTEMPTING  TO  FLEE  DOMESTIC  VIOLENCE,
 under   the  family  homelessness  and  eviction  prevention  supplement
 ("FHEPS") program, and to administer the program in  accordance  with  a
 plan approved pursuant to 18 N.Y.C.R.R. § 352.3(a)(3), provided however,
 that  the  maximum  rent  for  such  vouchers shall be set at the United
 States department of housing and urban development's  fair  market  rent
 level.  The state shall reimburse the local social services district for
 payments  made under the FHEPS program in a manner consistent with title
 two of this article.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11381-01-5

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