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A11201 Summary:
| BILL NO | A11201 |
| SAME AS | SAME AS S08947 |
| SPONSOR | Rules (Rodriguez) |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Add Art 2-A Title 3 §§47 & 47-a, Soc Serv L | |
| Relates to creating the Hurricane Maria temporary housing assistance program to provide individuals affected by Hurricane Maria with funding to cover a security deposit and first month's rent for new housing. | |
A11201 Actions:
| BILL NO | A11201 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 06/14/2018 | referred to social services | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 11201 IN ASSEMBLY June 14, 2018 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Rodriguez) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to creating the Hurricane Maria temporary housing assistance program; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Article 2-A of the social services law is amended by adding 2 a new title 3 to read as follows: 3 TITLE 3 4 HURRICANE MARIA TEMPORARY HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 5 Section 47. Establishment; definitions. 6 47-a. Application. 7 § 47. Establishment; definitions. 1. There is hereby established under 8 the administration of the commissioner the Hurricane Maria temporary 9 housing assistance program, which shall assist qualified individuals in 10 receiving an emergency housing deposit and one month's rental assist- 11 ance. 12 2. For purposes of this title: 13 (i) "qualified individual" shall mean an individual receiving assist- 14 ance under the federal emergency management agency's transitional shel- 15 tering assistance program as a result of Hurricane Maria; 16 (ii) "funding" shall mean a security deposit up to one thousand 17 dollars and one month's rent up to one thousand dollars; and 18 (iii) "qualified residence" shall mean housing located within the 19 state of New York with a rent obligation of one thousand dollars or less 20 per month. 21 § 47-a. Application. 1. A qualified individual located within the 22 state shall be eligible to receive funding for a qualified residence 23 from the local social services district in which such qualified resi- 24 dence is located. 25 2. Within one year of receipt of such funding, such qualified individ- 26 ual shall reimburse such local social services district for the cost of EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15990-01-8A. 11201 2 1 the security deposit provided to such qualified individual under subdi- 2 vision one of this section. 3 3. The commissioner shall work in conjunction with the commissioner of 4 taxation and finance or his or her designee to facilitate the reimburse- 5 ment of the additional funding provided under subdivision one of this 6 section. Such reimbursement shall be divided in half and collected from 7 the qualified individual in their two thousand nineteen and two thousand 8 twenty tax returns, with half collected in two thousand nineteen and the 9 remaining half collected in two thousand twenty. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be 11 deemed repealed August 29, 2018.