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.
                                                                   LBD09468-01-9

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     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.
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