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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee&nbspVotes Floor&nbspVotes Memo Text LFIN Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript S09214 Summary: BILL NO S09214A &nbsp SAME AS SAME AS A01948-A

&nbsp SPONSOR CLEARE &nbsp COSPNSR JACKSON, KAVANAGH &nbsp MLTSPNSR &nbsp Add Art 29-A §1265, Priv Hous Fin L &nbsp Establishes an affordable independent senior housing assistance program which shall provide grants within amounts appropriated or otherwise available therefor to affordable independent senior housing properties to establish and operate resident assistance programs.

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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________

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IN SENATE

February 17, 2026 ___________

Introduced by Sens. CLEARE, JACKSON, KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee on Finance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to amend the private housing finance law, in relation to estab- lishing an affordable independent senior housing assistance program

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

1 Section 1. The private housing finance law is amended by adding a new 2 article 29-A to read as follows: 3 ARTICLE XXIX-A 4 AFFORDABLE INDEPENDENT SENIOR HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 5 Section 1265. Affordable independent senior housing assistance program. 6 § 1265. Affordable independent senior housing assistance program. 1. 7 Establishment. The commissioner, in conjunction with the commissioner of 8 health, shall develop an affordable independent senior housing assist- 9 ance program, which shall provide grants within amounts appropriated or 10 otherwise available therefor to affordable independent senior housing 11 properties to establish and operate resident assistance programs. The 12 affordable independent senior housing assistance program shall be admin- 13 istered by the division. 14 2. Definitions. For purposes of this article, the following terms 15 shall have the following meanings: (a) "affordable independent senior 16 housing property" shall mean any residential project which contains 17 dwelling units that are affordable to residents at a specific income 18 level pursuant to a statute, regulation, restrictive declaration, or 19 regulatory agreement with a local, state, or federal government entity 20 that is occupied by individuals over sixty years of age, who live inde- 21 pendently and at least eighty percent of whom have a total household 22 income that does not exceed sixty percent of the area median income; 23 (b) "resident assistance" shall mean services or support offered to 24 residents of affordable independent senior housing properties to help

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02348-03-6

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1 promote healthy living by extending independence and improving quality 2 of life; and 3 (c) "division" shall mean the state division of housing and community 4 renewal. 5 3. Assistance. Allowable resident assistance shall be determined by 6 the commissioner in consultation with the commissioner of health; 7 provided however, that the provision of such resident assistance shall 8 not include any services or support that requires the property to be 9 licensed as an adult care facility pursuant to article seven of the 10 social services law or an assisted living residence pursuant to article 11 forty-six-B of the public health law. Prior to issuing any grants pursu- 12 ant to this article, the division and the department of health shall 13 solicit input from various stakeholders to determine what would consti- 14 tute resident assistance to ensure that such resident assistance would 15 not require such licensure. A summary of such input and the determi- 16 nation by the division as to whether the assistance provided by the 17 grant applicant would require licensure as an adult care facility or 18 assisted living residence shall be in writing and shared with the vari- 19 ous stakeholders prior to the approval of any grants pursuant to this 20 section. 21 4. Allocation. Sixty percent of the total funds awarded pursuant to 22 this article in any fiscal year shall be allocated to projects located 23 in urban areas of the state, as such term is defined in subdivision four 24 of section twelve hundred thirty-one of this chapter. Forty percent of 25 the total funds awarded pursuant to this article in any fiscal year 26 shall be allocated to projects located in rural areas of the state, as 27 such term is defined in subdivision three of section twelve hundred 28 thirty-one of this chapter. Up to ten percent of any amounts appropri- 29 ated or otherwise available therefor may be used by the commissioner to 30 administer the program. 31 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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