 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3154
 
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 22, 2021
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Social Services
 
        AN  ACT  to amend the social services law, in relation to reimbursements
          for domestic violence services
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Subdivision 2 of section 131-u of the social services law,
     2  as amended by section 3 of part J of chapter 56 of the laws of 2019,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    2. The department shall annually establish, subject to the approval of
     5  the director of the budget, a daily rate of reimbursement for each resi-
     6  dential  program for victims of domestic violence, as defined in article
     7  six-A of this chapter, certified by the department which provides  emer-
     8  gency  shelter and services to persons eligible for such emergency shel-
     9  ter and services pursuant to this section. A  social  services  district
    10  [financially  responsible for a victim of domestic violence] shall reim-
    11  burse a residential program for victims of  domestic  violence  for  the
    12  costs  of  emergency shelter and services provided to such victim at the
    13  daily reimbursement rate established by the department  reduced  by  any
    14  other  state  or federal funds provided for such reimbursement available
    15  for such costs.  Provided however, local social services  districts  and
    16  residential  programs  for  victims  of domestic violence shall be reim-
    17  bursed at one hundred percent for any additional costs incurred  provid-
    18  ing  shelter and services to victims of domestic violence as a result of
    19  amendments made to this section pursuant to sections one and two of part
    20  J of chapter fifty-six of the laws of two  thousand  nineteen.  Provided
    21  however,  such  funds utilized by the state for such reimbursement shall
    22  not reduce expenditures provided for state services eligible under title
    23  XX of the federal social security act.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2022.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01632-01-1
Relates to reimbursements for domestic violence services

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