Authorizes shelters for victims of domestic violence to be reimbursed for any payment differential for housing a single individual in a room intended for double occupancy where a single occupancy room is not available.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3264--B
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, WALKER, SHIMSKY, STECK,
PAULIN, ROSENTHAL, SIMON, REYES, KELLES, GALLAGHER -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Social Services -- recommitted to the
Committee on Social Services in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec.
2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said commit-
tee with amendments, 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:
1 Section 1. Section 131-u of the social services law is amended by
2 adding two new subdivisions 3 and 4 to read as follows:
3 3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a resi-
4 dential program for victims of domestic violence, as defined in section
5 four hundred fifty-nine-a of this chapter, which operates an emergency
6 shelter with at least ten beds and provides temporary housing assistance
7 to a single individual who meets such program's necessary eligibility
8 requirements, shall be reimbursed for the payment differential, if any,
9 for housing a single individual in a room intended for double occupancy,
10 if no other room intended for single occupancy is available within the
11 facility in accordance with the following:
12 (a) for the fiscal year beginning April first, two thousand twenty-
13 seven the reimbursement shall be fifty percent of any cost differential;
14 (b) for the fiscal year beginning April first, two thousand twenty-
15 eight the reimbursement shall be seventy-five percent of any cost
16 differential; and
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (c) for the fiscal year beginning April first, two thousand twenty-
2 nine the reimbursement shall be one hundred percent of any cost differ-
3 ential.
4 4. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a resi-
5 dential program for victims of domestic violence, as defined in section
6 four hundred fifty-nine-a of this chapter, which operates an emergency
7 shelter with fewer than ten beds and provides temporary housing assist-
8 ance to a single individual who meets such a program's necessary eligi-
9 bility requirements, shall be reimbursed for the payment differential,
10 if any, for housing a single individual in a room intended for double
11 occupancy, if no other room intended for single occupancy is available
12 within the facility. Such reimbursement shall be one hundred percent of
13 any cost differential for the fiscal year commencing on or after the
14 effective date of this subdivision and thereafter.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
