Relates to priority applicants and inspection of units under the housing access voucher pilot program; provides that priority shall be given both to applicants who are homeless and who are at risk of losing their federal rental subsidy; provides that housing access voucher local administrators shall inspect units for which a housing assistance payment contract is established.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9430--A
IN SENATE
March 11, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and
Community Development -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to priority appli-
cants and inspection of units under the housing access voucher pilot
program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 608 of the public housing law, as
2 added by section 1 of part HH of chapter 56 of the laws of 2025, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 3. Priority shall be given both to applicants who are homeless and to
5 applicants who are at risk of losing their federal rental subsidy due to
6 the imminent termination, reduction of funding, or changes in eligibil-
7 ity in federal law or policy of the federal program that provides such
8 rental subsidy. The commissioner shall have the discretion to establish
9 further priorities as appropriate.
10 § 2. Section 613 of the public housing law, as added by section 1 of
11 part HH of chapter 56 of the laws of 2025, is amended to read as
12 follows:
13 § 613. Inspection of units. [Inspection of] Housing access voucher
14 local administrators shall inspect units [shall be conducted pursuant to
15 the procedures and standards of the Federal Housing Choice voucher
16 program, as set forth in the applicable sections of Part 982 of Title 24
17 of the Code of Federal Regulations] for which a housing assistance
18 payment contract is established under this article, except as provided
19 in section six hundred sixteen of this article.
20 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
21 the amendments to sections 608 and 613 of the public housing law made by
22 sections one and two of this act shall not affect the expiration of such
23 sections and shall expire therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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