Bill Text: CT SB00260 | 2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Amending The Requirements Of The Assessment And Mediation Program.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-25 - Public Hearing 03/01 [SB00260 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2016-SB00260-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 260
February Session, 2016		LCO No. 1918
		*01918_______HSG*
Referred to Committee on HOUSING
Introduced by:
(HSG)

AN ACT AMENDING THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE ASSESSMENT AND MEDIATION PROGRAM.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 8-347a of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2016):

(a) The Commissioner of Housing shall establish and administer an assessment and mediation program for families at risk of becoming homeless or in imminent danger of eviction or foreclosure whose income does not exceed sixty per cent of the median income in the state.

(b) After evaluation of the causes of the risk of becoming homeless or the imminent danger of eviction or foreclosure and after attempting mediation, the commissioner shall assist eligible participants with application to appropriate resources.

(c) No family shall be eligible for grants under the rent bank program established under section 8-347 without prior referral to the assessment and mediation program.

(d) Participation in the program established under this section shall not be limited to individuals who reside in "affordable housing", which for the purposes of this section means housing where the monthly rent or mortgage payment does not exceed sixty per cent of the family's gross income. Up to two thousand dollars shall be available per family within available appropriations.

[(d)] (e) The commissioner may enter into regional contracts with local or regional nonprofit corporations or social service organizations having expertise in landlord-tenant mediation to implement the program established under this section.

[(e)] (f) The Commissioner of Housing may adopt regulations in accordance with chapter 54 to carry out the purposes of this section. Not later than January 1, 2017, the commissioner shall submit to the standing Legislative Regulation Review Committee amendments to the regulations to implement the provisions of subsection (d) of this section.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2016	8-347a

Statement of Purpose:

To amend the requirements of the assessment and mediation program.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]