Makes vouchers available to eligible families under the family homelessness and eviction protection supplement ("FHEPS") program in social services districts with a population of five million or more.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6573
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 6, 2021
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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 making vouchers
available under the family homelessness and eviction prevention
supplement program in social services districts with a population of
five million or more
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
2 131-bb to read as follows:
3 § 131-bb. Family homelessness and eviction prevention supplement
4 program. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, for
5 a local social services district with a population of five million or
6 more, the commissioner shall designate such local social services
7 district to make vouchers available to eligible families under the fami-
8 ly homelessness and eviction prevention supplement ("FHEPS") program,
9 and to administer the program in accordance with a plan approved pursu-
10 ant to 18 N.Y.C.R.R. § 352.3(a)(3), provided however, that the maximum
11 rent for such vouchers shall be set at the United States department of
12 housing and urban development's fair market rent level. The state shall
13 reimburse the local social services district for payments made under the
14 FHEPS program in a manner consistent with title two of this article.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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