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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          6974
 
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      May 20, 2021
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. KAVANAGH -- (at request of the New York State Homes
          and Community Renewal) -- read twice and  ordered  printed,  and  when
          printed  to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and
          Community Development
 
        AN ACT to amend the private housing finance law, in relation to  author-
          izing  statewide  or  regional multi-state contract administration and
          support services for federal section 8 project based  housing  assist-
          ance payments contracts
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  the  "State  and Local Project Based Housing Assistance Payment Contract
     3  Administration Act of 2021".
     4    § 2. Subdivisions 10, 11 and 12 of section 45-a of the private housing
     5  finance law, subdivision 11 as renumbered by chapter 261 of the laws  of
     6  1988, are renumbered subdivisions 11, 12 and 13 and a new subdivision 10
     7  is added to read as follows:
     8    10.  The  corporation  is  a  public  housing agency as defined in the
     9  United States housing act of 1937,  as  amended,  and  may  receive  and
    10  administer  funds including but not limited to subsidies, loans and fees
    11  made available through federal programs under such act.
    12    (a) The corporation shall be the sole entity  with  authority  in  the
    13  state  to  undertake  any statewide or regional multi-state contract for
    14  performance based annual contributions  contract  administration  issued
    15  under  authority  granted  in 42 U.S.C. section 1437f or any replacement
    16  program or contract, whether called an annual contributions contract  or
    17  other  name,  that  requires  substantially  the  same administration or
    18  support services offered nationally, regionally or statewide. The corpo-
    19  ration may in its discretion  subcontract  such  activities  as  it  may
    20  require.  The  division  of  housing  and community renewal shall be the
    21  entity responsible for such statewide or regional  multi-state  contract
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09593-01-1
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     1  administration  with  all powers and responsibilities which would other-
     2  wise be available to the corporation in the  event  the  corporation  is
     3  unable or unwilling to act as such entity.
     4    (b)  The  powers vested in the corporation and the division of housing
     5  and community renewal pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision  are
     6  coincident  to the powers of any municipal or other local public housing
     7  agency or public housing authority operating within  the  state  on  the
     8  effective  date  of this paragraph. The authority of the corporation and
     9  the division of housing and community renewal to operate on a  statewide
    10  basis  shall  not  limit  the authority of such municipal public housing
    11  agency or local public housing authority to operate, service, administer
    12  or enter into any project based section 8 contract  or  contracts  where
    13  the  project  is  located within a political subdivision of the state in
    14  which such public housing agency or public housing authority was operat-
    15  ing on such effective date.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.