Bill Text: NY S07869 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires DHCR to develop a common application and web portal for certain funding, tax credits, loans, and grants for housing; requires such application to be available upon request from relevant state agencies; requires such web portal to be manageable by relevant state agencies; makes relevant provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-13 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S07869 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07869-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7869

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 3, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  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 public housing law, in relation to requiring the
          commissioner of housing and community  renewal  to  develop  a  common
          application and web portal for certain public assistance, funding, tax
          credits, and grants for housing

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The public housing law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  14-a to read as follows:
     3    §  14-a. Housing assistance application and web portal. 1. The commis-
     4  sioner, in consultation with the  office  of  temporary  and  disability
     5  assistance and any other state agency that the commissioner deems neces-
     6  sary,  shall  cause  to be developed a common application and web portal
     7  with which an individual may apply for and manage any public assistance,
     8  funding, tax credit, or grant for housing that such individual is  enti-
     9  tled  to  receive  under  the  laws of the state, and that is capable of
    10  meeting all other requirements of this section.
    11    2. (a) The common application developed pursuant to this section shall
    12  be made available to an individual upon request from a state agency that
    13  grants public assistance, funding, tax credits, or grants  for  housing.
    14  Such  application shall also be capable of being completed and submitted
    15  by an applicant on the web portal created pursuant to this section.
    16    (b) The web portal required to be developed pursuant to  this  section
    17  shall  be  accessible  by  any  state  agency required to administer any
    18  public assistance, funding, tax credit, or grant for housing required of
    19  such state agency under the laws of  the  state,  and  any  such  public
    20  assistance,  funding,  tax  credit,  or  grant for housing shall be made
    21  capable of administration through such web portal.
    22    (c) Upon development of the web portal by the commissioner, any  state
    23  agency  required to administer any public assistance, funding, tax cred-
    24  it, or grant for housing under the laws of the state  shall  upload  any

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13394-02-3
        S. 7869                             2

     1  incorporating  documents, bylaws, or any other relevant information that
     2  such state agency deems helpful to individuals using such web portal.
     3    3. The provisions of this section shall apply only to statewide public
     4  assistance,  funding,  tax credits, or grants for housing, and shall not
     5  include any locally managed public assistance, funding, tax  credit,  or
     6  grant for housing.
     7    4. The commissioner shall have the authority to obtain any information
     8  the  commissioner shall deem necessary to fulfill the provisions of this
     9  section from any state agency.
    10    5. For the purposes of this section, the  term  "state  agency"  shall
    11  mean any state agency, department, commission, division, office, bureau,
    12  or subdivision thereof.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    14  it shall have become a law.