Assembly Bill A5543

2023-2024 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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  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-A5543 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2982
Current Committee:
Assembly Social Services
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Add §131-cc, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A8900, S8632

2023-A5543 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2023-A5543 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5543
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 16, 2023
                                ___________
 
 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 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.
                                                            LBD07258-01-3

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