S1454 • 2025

Requires shelter allowances be set at up to one hundred percent of the fair market rent for the local social services district

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Sponsor: Brian Kavanagh
Last action: 2026-05-12
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Requires shelter allowances be set at up to one hundred percent of the fair market rent for the local social services district

Requires shelter allowances be set at up to one hundred percent of the fair market rent for the local social services district Requires shelter allowances be set at up to one hundred percent of the fair market rent for the local social services district.

What This Bill Does

Requires shelter allowances be set at up to one hundred percent of the fair market rent for the local social services district Requires shelter allowances be set at up to one hundred percent of the fair market rent for the local social services district.

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Bill History

2026-05-12 Senate
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES
2025-04-29 Senate
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
2025-01-10 Senate
REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES

Official Summary Text

Requires shelter allowances be set at up to one hundred percent of the fair market rent for the local social services district
Requires shelter allowances be set at up to one hundred percent of the fair market rent for the local social services district.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          1454

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                    January 10, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  KAVANAGH,  CLEARE, COMRIE, COONEY, HOYLMAN-SIGAL,
          JACKSON, PARKER, SALAZAR, SERRANO -- read twice and  ordered  printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services

        AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring shel-
          ter allowances be set at up to one hundred percent of the fair  market
          rent for the local social services district

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new  section
     2  131-cc to read as follows:
     3    §  131-CC.  SHELTER ALLOWANCES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF
     4  LAW TO THE CONTRARY, LOCAL SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICTS SHALL PAY THE SHEL-
     5  TER ALLOWANCE EQUAL TO THE ACTUAL RENT OBLIGATION OF  RECIPIENTS  UP  TO
     6  ONE  HUNDRED  PERCENT OF THE CURRENT UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING
     7  AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT'S FAIR MARKET RENT AS OF THE DATE OF  ISSUANCE  OF
     8  THE  SHELTER  ALLOWANCE TO THE RECIPIENT FOR THE CORRESPONDING UNIT SIZE
     9  IN THE DISTRICT IN WHICH THE RECIPIENT RESIDES.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    11  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04190-01-5