Authorizes certain 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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5471
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 1, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- 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 authorizing
certain shelters to be reimbursed for housing a single individual 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 a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
3 3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any
4 residential program for victims of domestic violence, as defined in
5 section four hundred fifty-nine-a of this chapter, which provides tempo-
6 rary housing assistance to a single individual who meets such program's
7 necessary eligibility requirements, shall be reimbursed for any payment
8 differential for housing a single individual in a room intended for
9 double occupancy.
10 § 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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