File #: Int 1477-2025    Version: * Name: CityFHEPS application response times.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on General Welfare
On agenda: 11/25/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to CityFHEPS application response times
Sponsors: Gale A. Brewer, Amanda C. Farías, Nantasha M. Williams, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Diana I. Ayala, Chris Banks, Julie Won, Lynn C. Schulman
Council Member Sponsors: 8
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Social Services (DSS) to respond to an application for the City Fighting Homelessness and Eviction Prevention Supplement (CityFHEPS) rental assistance voucher within 15 days after receiving the application. The response would inform the applicant of whether the application has been approved, denied, or requires correction or additional information.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1477, 2. Int. No. 1477, 3. November 25, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 5. Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 6. Committee Report 12/3/25, 7. Hearing Testimony 12/3/25, 8. Hearing Transcript 12/3/25, 9. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 11-25-25
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12/31/2025*Gale A. Brewer City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/3/2025*Gale A. Brewer Committee on General Welfare Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/3/2025*Gale A. Brewer Committee on General Welfare Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/25/2025*Gale A. Brewer City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/25/2025*Gale A. Brewer City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 1477

 

By Council Members Brewer, Farías, Williams, Brooks-Powers, Ayala, Banks, Won and Schulman

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to CityFHEPS application response times

 

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 21-154 to read as follows:

§ 21-154 Rental assistance application response time. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the term “CityFHEPS” means the rental assistance program established in chapter 10 of title 68 of the rules of the city of New York, or any successor program.

b. Within 15 days after the department receives an application for CityFHEPS, the department shall inform the applicant of whether the application has been approved, denied, or requires correction or additional information.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law.

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LS #18846/18850/19124/19439/19500

8/6/25 2:00 PM