Bill Text: NY S06156 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the statewide or regional multi-state contract administration and support services for federal section eight project based housing assistance payments contracts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-21 - referred to housing [S06156 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S06156-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6156 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 20, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. STEWART-COUSINS -- (at request of the Division of Housing & Community Renewal) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development AN ACT to amend the private housing finance law, in relation to the statewide or regional multi-state contract administration and support services for federal section eight project based housing assistance payments contracts The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 the "State and Local Project Based Housing Assistance Payment Contract 3 Administration Act of 2019". 4 § 2. Subdivisions 10, 11, and 12 of section 45-a of the private hous- 5 ing finance law, subdivision 11 as renumbered by chapter 261 if the laws 6 of 1988, are renumbered subdivisions 11, 12, and 13 and a new subdivi- 7 sion 10 is added to read as follows: 8 10. The corporation is a public housing agency as defined in the 9 United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended and may receive and admin- 10 ister funds including but not limited to subsidies, loans and fees made 11 available through federal programs under such act. 12 (a) The corporation shall be the sole entity with authority in the 13 state to undertake any statewide or regional multi-state contract for 14 performance based annual contributions contract administration issued 15 under authority granted in section eight of the United States Housing 16 Act of 1937, as amended, or any replacement program or contract, whether 17 called an annual contributions contract or other name, that requires 18 substantially the same administration or support services offered 19 nationally, regionally or statewide. The corporation may in its 20 discretion subcontract such activities as it may require. The division 21 of housing and community renewal shall be the entity responsible for EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09468-01-9S. 6156 2 1 such statewide or regional multi-state contract administration with all 2 powers and responsibilities which would otherwise be available to the 3 corporation in the event the corporation is unable or unwilling to act 4 as such entity. 5 (b) The powers vested in the corporation and the division of housing 6 and community renewal pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision are 7 coincident to the powers of any municipal or other local public housing 8 agency or public housing authority operating within the state of New 9 York on the effective date of this paragraph, and such public housing 10 agency or public housing authority may continue to operate, service, 11 administer or enter into any project based section eight contract or 12 contracts where the project is located within a political subdivision of 13 the state in which such public housing agency or public housing authori- 14 ty was operating on such date. 15 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.