New York A 1503: Relates to making certain housing programs available regardless of immigration status

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A01503 Summary:

BILL NOA01503 

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SAME ASSAME AS S00958

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SPONSORRosenthal

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COSPNSRForrest, Lee

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §131-bbb, Soc Serv L

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Relates to making certain housing programs available regardless of immigration status; provides that local social services districts in a city with a population of five million or more shall be permitted to offer certain housing programs to individuals or families who would be eligible but for a federal law restricting eligibility based on immigration.

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01/10/2025referred to social services

01/07/2026referred to social services

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1503

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 10, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, FORREST -- read once and referred to
 the Committee on Social Services

 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to making certain
 housing programs available regardless of immigration status

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

 1 Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
 2 131-bbb to read as follows:
 3 § 131-bbb. Local social services housing programs in accordance with
 4 subsection d of 8 U.S.C. 1621. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of
 5 law to the contrary, for a local social services district with a popu-
 6 lation of five million or more, the commissioner shall permit such
 7 district to make the program set forth in chapter ten of title sixty-
 8 eight of the rules of the city of New York, or any successor program,
 9 available to families and individuals who would be eligible but for such
 10 federal law restricting eligibility for such benefits based on immi-
 11 gration status; and to administer the program in accordance with a plan
 12 approved pursuant to 18 N.Y.C.R.R. § 352.3(a)(3).
 13 2. Funds appropriated by New York state for services and expenses of a
 14 program to provide shelter supplements at local option to individuals
 15 and families regardless of immigration status shall be authorized by the
 16 department to reimburse a local social services district with a popu-
 17 lation of five million or more to fund the program set forth in subdivi-
 18 sion one of this section pursuant to the approved plan provided that
 19 funds are first used to reimburse rental costs above the maximum rent
 20 levels in place as of January first, two thousand twenty-one up to the
 21 United States department of housing and urban development's fair market
 22 rent level for the family homelessness and eviction prevention supple-
 23 ment pursuant to section one hundred thirty-one-bb of this title.
 24 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02337-01-5

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