Bill Text: NY S07869 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-30 - AMENDED ON THIRD READING (T) 7869B [S07869 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07869-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7869--B
            Cal. No. 1491

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 3, 2024
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        Introduced  by Sens. MAY, JACKSON -- 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 --
          reported favorably from said committee and committed to the  Committee
          on  Finance  --  committee  discharged  and said bill committed to the
          Committee on Rules -- ordered to a third reading, amended and  ordered
          reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading

        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 development

          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 any other state agency that the commission-
     5  er deems necessary, shall cause to be developed a common application and
     6  web  portal  with  which  a  business  or organization may apply for and
     7  manage any funding, tax credit, loan, or grant for  housing  development
     8  that such business or organization is entitled to receive under the laws
     9  of  the  state, and that is capable of meeting all other requirements of
    10  this section.
    11    2. (a) The common application developed pursuant to this section shall
    12  be made available to a business or  organization  upon  request  from  a
    13  state  agency  that  grants  funding,  tax credits, loans, or grants for
    14  housing development.  Such application shall also be  capable  of  being
    15  completed and submitted by an applicant on the web portal created pursu-
    16  ant to this section.
    17    (b)  The  web portal required to be developed pursuant to this section
    18  shall be accessible by any state agency required to administer any fund-
    19  ing, tax credit, loan, or grant for housing development required of such
    20  state agency under the laws of the state,  and  any  such  funding,  tax

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13394-06-4
        S. 7869--B                          2

     1  credit,  loan, or grant for housing development shall be made capable of
     2  administration through such web portal.
     3    (c)  Upon development of the web portal by the commissioner, any state
     4  agency required to administer any funding, tax credit,  loan,  or  grant
     5  for  housing  development  under  the laws of the state shall upload any
     6  incorporating documents, bylaws, or any other relevant information  that
     7  such  state  agency deems helpful to business or organization using such
     8  web portal.
     9    3. The provisions of this section shall apply only to statewide  fund-
    10  ing,  tax  credits,  loans,  or grants for housing development where the
    11  business or organization submits an application to a state  agency,  and
    12  shall  not  include  any  locally  managed funding, tax credit, loan, or
    13  grant for housing development where the business or organization submits
    14  an application to a designated local entity or  where  the  business  or
    15  organization submits an application to a not-for-profit corporation.
    16    4. The commissioner shall have the authority to obtain any information
    17  the  commissioner shall deem necessary to fulfill the provisions of this
    18  section from any state agency.
    19    5. For the purposes of this section, the  term  "state  agency"  shall
    20  mean any state agency, department, commission, division, office, bureau,
    21  or subdivision thereof.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    23  it shall have become a law.