Bill Text: NY A02372 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that certain aid to families shall include an allowance for shelter that shall be calculated to equal the lessor of either eighty percent of fair market rent or actual rent paid by the individual receiving the allowance.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to social services [A02372 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A02372-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2372
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 14, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A. CAMARA, RIVERA, ORTIZ, CLARK, GLICK, BRENNAN,
         ROBINSON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. JACOBS  --  read  once  and
         referred to the Committee on Social Services
       AN  ACT  to amend the social services law, in relation to providing that
         certain aid to families shall include an allowance for shelter
         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 1 of section 350 of the social
    2  services law, as separately amended by chapters 909 and 1080 of the laws
    3  of 1974, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (a) Allowances shall be adequate to enable the father, mother or other
    5  relative to bring up the child properly, having regard for the physical,
    6  mental  and  moral  well-being  of  such  child,  in accordance with the
    7  provisions of section one hundred thirty-one-a of this chapter and other
    8  applicable provisions of law. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF  SECTION
    9  ONE  HUNDRED  THIRTY-ONE-A  OF THIS CHAPTER OR OF ANY OTHER PROVISION OF
   10  LAW, THE TERM "ADEQUATE", AS USED IN THIS PARAGRAPH,  SHALL  INCLUDE  AN
   11  ALLOWANCE  FOR  SHELTER  THAT  SHALL  BE  CALCULATED TO EQUAL THE LESSER
   12  AMOUNT OF: (I) EIGHTY PERCENT OF FAIR MARKET RENT AS DEFINED PURSUANT TO
   13  SECTION 888.113 OF THE CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS; OR (II) ONE  HUNDRED
   14  PERCENT  OF  THE ACTUAL RENT PAID BY THE INDIVIDUAL RECEIVING THE ALLOW-
   15  ANCE. Allowances shall provide for the support, maintenance and needs of
   16  one or both parents if in need, and in the home  and  for  the  support,
   17  maintenance  and  needs  of  the  other relative if he or she is without
   18  sufficient means of support, provided such parent, parents and  relative
   19  are  not  receiving federal supplemental security income payments and/or
   20  additional state payments  for  which  they  are  eligible.  The  social
   21  services  official may, in his OR HER discretion, make the incapacitated
   22  parent the grantee of the allowance and when allowances are granted  for
   23  the aid of a child or children due to the unemployment of a parent, such
   24  official may make the unemployed parent the grantee of the allowance.
   25    S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
   26  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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