Bill Text: NY A02583 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Authorizes certain shelters for victims of domestic violence to be reimbursed for any payment differential for housing a single individual in a room intended for double occupancy where a single occupancy room is not available.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2024-12-23 - tabled [A02583 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02583-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         2583--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 26, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, WALKER, BURDICK, SHIMSKY,
          BURGOS,  STECK,  GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Social Services -- recommitted to the Committee on Social Services  in
          accordance  with  Assembly  Rule 3, sec. 2 -- reported and referred to
          the Committee on Ways and Means -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the social services  law,  in  relation  to  authorizing
          certain shelters to be reimbursed for housing a single individual in a
          room intended for double occupancy

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 131-u of the social  services  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
     3    3.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision of law to the contrary, any
     4  residential program for victims of  domestic  violence,  as  defined  in
     5  section four hundred fifty-nine-a of this chapter, which provides tempo-
     6  rary  housing assistance to a single individual who meets such program's
     7  necessary eligibility requirements, shall be reimbursed for any  payment
     8  differential  for  housing  a  single  individual in a room intended for
     9  double occupancy, if no other room  intended  for  single  occupancy  is
    10  available within the facility.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01501-02-4
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