Includes water-works corporations in the definition of "utility corporation" for purposes of automated identification of OTDA assistance program participants; provides for automated identification of OTDA assistance program participants for participation in water service affordability programs.
Relates to establishing state disaster emergency requirements for homeless shelters including placement of individuals and families in shelters and reporting of infections related to the emergency.
Establishes rental vouchers for working families; provides definitions; allows for families to make an application for rental vouchers at the appropriate social services district or any facilitated enrollment site authorized by the office of temporary and disability assistance; sets forth eligibility requirements.
Establishes a two generation pilot program to promote family stability and children's school readiness; provides for the repeal of this section in five years.
Requires electronic benefit transfer systems to include automatic credit or debit card cancellation when fraudulent activity has been reported; directs that such cancellation shall occur as soon as the procedure for reporting fraudulent activity has been completed.
Creates the incentivizing habitability opportunity program; provides that each local social services district shall provide an incentive to owners who enter into a residential lease or rental agreement with an eligible household for a qualified dwelling unit in order to address homelessness and ensure appropriate habitability standards.
Requires any website or mobile application associated with an electronic benefit transfer system to be offered in over one hundred languages, including both common and esoteric languages.
Requires any website or mobile application associated with an electronic benefit transfer system to be offered in the ten most common non-English languages spoken by individuals with limited-English proficiency in the state of New York, based on United States census data.
Establishes the housing people and animals together grant program to expand access for co-sheltering people experiencing homelessness and victims of domestic violence with companion animals.