New York S 1454: Requires shelter allowances be set at up to one hundred percent of the fair market rent for the local social services district

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S01454 Summary:

BILL NOS01454 

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SAME ASSAME AS A01507

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SPONSORKAVANAGH

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COSPNSRCLEARE, COMRIE, COONEY, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, PARKER, SALAZAR, SERRANO

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §131-cc, Soc Serv L

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Requires shelter allowances be set at up to one hundred percent of the fair market rent for the local social services district.

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BILL NOS01454 

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01/10/2025REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES

04/29/2025REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

01/07/2026REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES

05/12/2026REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 1454

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 10, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. KAVANAGH, CLEARE, COMRIE, COONEY, HOYLMAN-SIGAL,
 JACKSON, PARKER, SALAZAR, SERRANO -- 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 requiring shel-
 ter allowances be set at up to one hundred percent of the fair market
 rent for the local social services district

 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-cc to read as follows:
 3 § 131-cc. Shelter allowances. Notwithstanding any other provision of
 4 law to the contrary, local social services districts shall pay the shel-
 5 ter allowance equal to the actual rent obligation of recipients up to
 6 one hundred percent of the current United States department of housing
 7 and urban development's fair market rent as of the date of issuance of
 8 the shelter allowance to the recipient for the corresponding unit size
 9 in the district in which the recipient resides.
 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 11 have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04190-01-5

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