STATE OF NEW YORK
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8980
IN SENATE
May 3, 2022
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Introduced by Sen. PERSAUD -- (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 Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to providing for
flexibility in the funding of certain weatherization programs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 5 of section 97 of the social
2 services law, as amended by chapter 309 of the laws of 1996, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 a. No less than ten percent of the funds available to New York state
5 under the federal low-income home energy assistance program shall be
6 allocated to the division of housing and community renewal, the housing
7 trust fund corporation, or the housing finance agency as designated by
8 the division of housing and community renewal for [its] the weatheriza-
9 tion assistance program and [shall be expended as] other low-cost resi-
10 dential weatherization or other energy-related home repair for low-in-
11 come households. All such programs and expenditures shall be provided
12 in the annual New York state weatherization assistance program state
13 plan or by agreement with the office of temporary and disability assist-
14 ance.
15 § 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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