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

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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-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2583

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 26, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. HEVESI, GONZALEZ-ROJAS -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Social Services

        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.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01501-01-3