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S 1454 NY

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

NY · session 2025-2026 · Senate · bill

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Introduced Jan 10, 2025

Latest action (May 12, 2026) REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

Summary

This bill amends New York's social services law to require local social services districts to set shelter allowances at up to 100 percent of the fair market rent established by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Under the bill, shelter allowances must cover the actual rent obligation of recipients, calculated according to the fair market rent for the appropriate unit size in the district where the recipient resides. The fair market rent rates used to calculate allowances are to be determined as of the date the shelter allowance is issued to the recipient. The bill takes effect 30 days after becoming law.

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Official abstract

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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8 coauthors / cosponsors

Action history (4)
  1. Jan 10, 2025 REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES · upper
  2. Apr 29, 2025 REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE · upper
  3. Jan 7, 2026 REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES · upper
  4. May 12, 2026 REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE · upper

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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee&nbspVotes Floor&nbspVotes Memo Text LFIN Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript S01454 Summary: BILL NO S01454 &nbsp SAME AS SAME AS A01507

&nbsp SPONSOR KAVANAGH &nbsp COSPNSR CLEARE, COMRIE, COONEY, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, PARKER, SALAZAR, SERRANO &nbsp MLTSPNSR &nbsp Add §131-cc, Soc Serv L &nbsp 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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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________

1454

2025-2026 Regular Sessions

IN SENATE

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

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