Requires DHCR to develop a common application and web portal for certain funding, tax credits, loans, and grants for housing; requires such application to be available upon request from relevant state agencies; requires such web portal to be manageable by relevant state agencies; makes relevant provisions.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7869--A
IN SENATE
January 3, 2024
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Introduced by Sen. MAY -- 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 requiring the
commissioner of housing and community renewal to develop a common
application and web portal for certain funding, tax credits, loans,
and grants for housing
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public housing law is amended by adding a new section
2 14-a to read as follows:
3 § 14-a. Housing assistance application and web portal. 1. The commis-
4 sioner, in consultation with the office of temporary and disability
5 assistance and any other state agency that the commissioner deems neces-
6 sary, shall cause to be developed a common application and web portal
7 with which an individual may apply for and manage any funding, tax cred-
8 it, loan, or grant for housing that such individual is entitled to
9 receive under the laws of the state, and that is capable of meeting all
10 other requirements of this section.
11 2. (a) The common application developed pursuant to this section shall
12 be made available to an individual upon request from a state agency that
13 grants funding, tax credits, loans, or grants for housing. Such applica-
14 tion shall also be capable of being completed and submitted by an appli-
15 cant on the web portal created pursuant to this section.
16 (b) The web portal required to be developed pursuant to this section
17 shall be accessible by any state agency required to administer any fund-
18 ing, tax credit, loan, or grant for housing required of such state agen-
19 cy under the laws of the state, and any such funding, tax credit, loan,
20 or grant for housing shall be made capable of administration through
21 such web portal.
22 (c) Upon development of the web portal by the commissioner, any state
23 agency required to administer any funding, tax credit, loan, or grant
24 for housing under the laws of the state shall upload any incorporating
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 documents, bylaws, or any other relevant information that such state
2 agency deems helpful to individuals using such web portal.
3 3. The provisions of this section shall apply only to statewide fund-
4 ing, tax credits, loans, or grants for housing where the individual
5 submits an application to a state agency, and shall not include any
6 locally managed funding, tax credit, loan, or grant for housing where
7 the individual submits an application to a designated local entity or
8 where the individual submits an application to a not-for-profit corpo-
9 ration.
10 4. The commissioner shall have the authority to obtain any information
11 the commissioner shall deem necessary to fulfill the provisions of this
12 section from any state agency.
13 5. For the purposes of this section, the term "state agency" shall
14 mean any state agency, department, commission, division, office, bureau,
15 or subdivision thereof.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
17 it shall have become a law.
