Bill Text: NY S03979 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Permits the county of Niagara to direct the commissioner of social services to make certain shelter allowance payments directly to the owner of a housing accommodation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S03979 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S03979-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3979--A
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
March 4, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. MAZIARZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the county law, in relation to the payment of shelter
allowances by the department of social services in the county of
Niagara
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. The county law is amended by adding a new section 853 to
2 read as follows:
3 S 853. SHELTER ALLOWANCE PAYMENTS FOR RECIPIENTS OF PUBLIC ASSISTANCE
4 IN THE COUNTY OF NIAGARA. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW,
5 THE LEGISLATIVE BODY IN THE COUNTY OF NIAGARA MAY ENACT A LOCAL LAW OR
6 ORDINANCE TO AUTHORIZE AND DIRECT THE COMMISSIONER OF THE NIAGARA COUNTY
7 DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES TO MAKE SHELTER ALLOWANCE PAYMENTS FOR A
8 RECIPIENT OF PUBLIC ASSISTANCE DIRECTLY TO THE OWNER OF THE HOUSING
9 ACCOMMODATION OR HIS OR HER DESIGNATED AGENT.
10 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09464-02-3
