Int 1472-2025
When the department of social services is required to make CityFHEPS rental assistance payments.
IntroductionFiledCommittee on General Welfareintroduced 2025-11-12
Filed — closed without being enacted.
Official record · Legistar
Agenda: 2025-11-12
Summary
This bill would require that CityFHEPS rental assistance payments be made no later than 7 days before the first day of the month to which the payments will be applied.
Committee on General Welfare — Human Resources Administration/Department of Social Services, Department of Homeless Services, and charitable institutions.
How it compares
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17 passed · 33 died
This bill: 48 days in committee
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Sponsors (7)
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2025-11-12 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2025-11-12 · City Council
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2025-12-31 · City Council
Heard at (1)
City Council · 2025-11-12 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Attachments (5)
- Summary of Int. No. 1472
- Int. No. 1472
- Memorandum in Support
- November 12, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda
- Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 11-12-25
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 21 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 21-145.1 to read as follows:
� 21-145.1 CityFHEPS rental assistance payment date. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
CityFHEPS rental assistance payments. The term "CityFHEPS rental assistance payments" means recurring payments made by the department to landlords on behalf of tenants pursuant to chapter 10 of title 68 of the rules of the city of New York.
Scheduled payment date. The term "scheduled payment date" means the date 7 days prior to the first day of the month to which the CityFHEPS rental assistance payment will be applied.
b. The department shall make all CityFHEPS rental assistance payments no later than the scheduled payment date.
� 2. Subdivision a of section 21-145.4 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 145 for the year 2023, is amended to read as follows:
a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
CityFHEPS rental assistance payments. The term "CityFHEPS rental assistance payments" [means recurring payments made by the department to landlords on behalf of tenants pursuant to chapter 10 of title 68 of the rules of the city of New York] has the same meaning as provided in section 21-145.1.
Scheduled payment date. The term "scheduled payment date" [means the date when payments are to be made in accordance with section 10-14(b) of chapter 10 of title 68 of the rules of the city of New York] has the same meaning as provided in section 21-145.1.
� 3. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.
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10/31/25