S7632 • 2025

Includes households who are fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence under the family homelessness and eviction prevention supplement ("FHEPS") program

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Sponsor: Brian Kavanagh
Last action: 2026-06-05
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Includes households who are fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence under the family homelessness and eviction prevention supplement ("FHEPS") program

Includes households who are fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence under the family homelessness and eviction prevention supplement ("FHEPS") program Includes households who are fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence under the family homelessness and eviction prevention supplement ("FHEPS") program.

What This Bill Does

Includes households who are fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence under the family homelessness and eviction prevention supplement ("FHEPS") program Includes households who are fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence under the family homelessness and eviction prevention supplement ("FHEPS") program.

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Bill History

2026-06-05 Senate
COMMITTED TO RULES
2026-05-14 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-05-13 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-05-12 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.1024
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES
2025-04-24 Senate
REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES

Official Summary Text

Includes households who are fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence under the family homelessness and eviction prevention supplement ("FHEPS") program
Includes households who are fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence under the family homelessness and eviction prevention supplement ("FHEPS") program.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          7632

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                     April 24, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- 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 including house-
          holds who are fleeing or attempting to flee  domestic  violence  under
          the  family  homelessness and eviction prevention supplement ("FHEPS")
          program

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  131-bb  of  the social services law, as added by
     2  chapter 666 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 131-bb.  Family  homelessness  and  eviction  prevention  supplement
     4  program. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, for
     5  a  local  social  services district with a population of five million or
     6  more, the  commissioner  shall  designate  such  local  social  services
     7  district  to  make  vouchers  available  to eligible families, INCLUDING
     8  HOUSEHOLDS WHO ARE FLEEING OR  ATTEMPTING  TO  FLEE  DOMESTIC  VIOLENCE,
     9  under   the  family  homelessness  and  eviction  prevention  supplement
    10  ("FHEPS") program, and to administer the program in  accordance  with  a
    11  plan approved pursuant to 18 N.Y.C.R.R. § 352.3(a)(3), provided however,
    12  that  the  maximum  rent  for  such  vouchers shall be set at the United
    13  States department of housing and urban development's  fair  market  rent
    14  level.  The state shall reimburse the local social services district for
    15  payments  made under the FHEPS program in a manner consistent with title
    16  two of this article.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11381-01-5