STATE OF NEW YORK
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4467
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
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:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 131-u of the social services law,
2 as amended by section 3 of part J of chapter 56 of the laws of 2019, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 2. The department shall annually establish, subject to the approval of
5 the director of the budget, a daily rate of reimbursement for each resi-
6 dential program for victims of domestic violence, as defined in article
7 six-A of this chapter, certified by the department which provides emer-
8 gency shelter and services to persons eligible for such emergency shel-
9 ter and services pursuant to this section. A social services district
10 [financially responsible for a victim of domestic violence] shall reim-
11 burse a residential program for victims of domestic violence for the
12 costs of emergency shelter and services provided to such victim at the
13 daily reimbursement rate established by the department reduced by any
14 other state or federal funds provided for such reimbursement available
15 for such costs. Provided however, local social services districts and
16 residential programs for victims of domestic violence shall be reim-
17 bursed at one hundred percent for any additional costs incurred provid-
18 ing shelter and services to victims of domestic violence as a result of
19 amendments made to this section pursuant to sections one and two of part
20 J of chapter fifty-six of the laws of two thousand nineteen. Provided
21 however, such funds utilized by the state for such reimbursement shall
22 not reduce expenditures provided for state services eligible under title
23 XX of the federal social security act.
24 § 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.
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