Bill Text: NY S08980 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides for flexibility by the division of housing and community renewal in the funding of certain weatherization programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-24 - SUBSTITUTED BY A10156 [S08980 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S08980-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8980 IN SENATE May 3, 2022 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PERSAUD -- (at request of the New York State Homes and Community Renewal) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to providing for flexibility in the funding of certain weatherization programs The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 5 of section 97 of the social 2 services law, as amended by chapter 309 of the laws of 1996, is amended 3 to read as follows: 4 a. No less than ten percent of the funds available to New York state 5 under the federal low-income home energy assistance program shall be 6 allocated to the division of housing and community renewal, the housing 7 trust fund corporation, or the housing finance agency as designated by 8 the division of housing and community renewal for [its] the weatheriza- 9 tion assistance program and [shall be expended as] other low-cost resi- 10 dential weatherization or other energy-related home repair for low-in- 11 come households. All such programs and expenditures shall be provided 12 in the annual New York state weatherization assistance program state 13 plan or by agreement with the office of temporary and disability assist- 14 ance. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14012-02-2
