Senate Bill S7738A

                             
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                                  7738--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 2, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. GOUNARDES, BRISPORT -- read twice and ordered print-
   ed,  and  when  printed  to  be  committed  to the Committee on Social
   Services -- recommitted to the Committee on Social Services in accord-
   ance with Senate Rule 6,  sec.  8  --  reported  favorably  from  said
   committee  and  committed  to  the  Committee  on Finance -- committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services  law,  in  relation  to  authorizing
   domestic violence shelters to be reimbursed for housing a single indi-
   vidual in a room intended for double occupancy
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 131-u of the social  services  law  is  amended  by
 adding two new subdivisions 3 and 4 to read as follows:
   3. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, A RESI-
 DENTIAL  PROGRAM FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, AS DEFINED IN SECTION
 FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE-A OF THIS CHAPTER, WHICH OPERATES  AN  EMERGENCY
 SHELTER WITH AT LEAST TEN BEDS AND PROVIDES TEMPORARY HOUSING ASSISTANCE
 TO  A  SINGLE  INDIVIDUAL WHO MEETS SUCH PROGRAM'S NECESSARY ELIGIBILITY
 REQUIREMENTS, SHALL BE REIMBURSED FOR THE PAYMENT DIFFERENTIAL, IF  ANY,
 FOR HOUSING A SINGLE INDIVIDUAL IN A ROOM INTENDED FOR DOUBLE OCCUPANCY,
 IF  NO  OTHER ROOM INTENDED FOR SINGLE OCCUPANCY IS AVAILABLE WITHIN THE
 FACILITY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING:
   (A) FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING APRIL FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND  TWENTY-
 SEVEN THE REIMBURSEMENT SHALL BE FIFTY PERCENT OF ANY COST DIFFERENTIAL;
   (B)  FOR  THE  FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-
 EIGHT THE REIMBURSEMENT  SHALL  BE  SEVENTY-FIVE  PERCENT  OF  ANY  COST
 DIFFERENTIAL; AND
   (C)  FOR  THE  FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING APRIL FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-
 NINE THE REIMBURSEMENT SHALL BE ONE HUNDRED PERCENT OF ANY COST  DIFFER-
 ENTIAL.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06806-05-6
              

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   4. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, A RESI-
 DENTIAL  PROGRAM FOR VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, AS DEFINED IN SECTION
 FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE-A OF THIS CHAPTER, WHICH OPERATES  AN  EMERGENCY
 SHELTER  WITH FEWER THAN TEN BEDS AND PROVIDES TEMPORARY HOUSING ASSIST-
 ANCE  TO A SINGLE INDIVIDUAL WHO MEETS SUCH A PROGRAM'S NECESSARY ELIGI-
 BILITY REQUIREMENTS, SHALL BE REIMBURSED FOR THE  PAYMENT  DIFFERENTIAL,
 IF  ANY,  FOR  HOUSING A SINGLE INDIVIDUAL IN A ROOM INTENDED FOR DOUBLE
 OCCUPANCY, IF NO OTHER ROOM INTENDED FOR SINGLE OCCUPANCY  IS  AVAILABLE
 WITHIN  THE FACILITY. SUCH REIMBURSEMENT SHALL BE ONE HUNDRED PERCENT OF
 ANY COST DIFFERENTIAL FOR THE FISCAL YEAR COMMENCING  ON  OR  AFTER  THE
 EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SUBDIVISION AND THEREAFTER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.