New York Senate Bill S00015 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 15--A Cal. No. 1185 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 4, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. GOUNARDES, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services -- recommitted to the Committee on Social Services in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee on Finance -- committee discharged and said bill committed to the Committee on Rules -- ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to authorizing certain shelters to be reimbursed for housing a single individual in a room intended for double occupancy The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 131-u of the social services law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows: 3 3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any 4 residential program for victims of domestic violence, as defined in 5 section four hundred fifty-nine-a of this chapter, which provides tempo- 6 rary housing assistance to a single individual who meets such program's 7 necessary eligibility requirements, shall be reimbursed for any payment 8 differential for housing a single individual in a room intended for 9 double occupancy, if no other room intended for single occupancy is 10 available within the facility. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01501-03-4