Florida Senate - 2009                                    SB 2230
       
       
       
       By Senator Dockery
       
       
       
       
       15-01690-09                                           20092230__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to relocation grants; amending s.
    3         420.9072, F.S.; authorizing counties and eligible
    4         municipalities to use funds from the State Housing
    5         Initiatives Partnership Program to provide relocation
    6         grants for persons who are evicted from rental
    7         properties that are in foreclosure; providing
    8         eligibility requirements for receiving a grant;
    9         providing that authorization for the relocation grants
   10         expires July 1, 2010; providing an effective date.
   11  
   12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   14         Section 1. Subsection (7) of section 420.9072, Florida
   15  Statutes, is amended to read:
   16         420.9072 State Housing Initiatives Partnership Program.—The
   17  State Housing Initiatives Partnership Program is created for the
   18  purpose of providing funds to counties and eligible
   19  municipalities as an incentive for the creation of local housing
   20  partnerships, to expand production of and preserve affordable
   21  housing, to further the housing element of the local government
   22  comprehensive plan specific to affordable housing, and to
   23  increase housing-related employment.
   24         (7) A county or an eligible municipality must expend its
   25  portion of the local housing distribution only to implement a
   26  local housing assistance plan or as provided in this subsection.
   27         (a) A county or an eligible municipality may not expend its
   28  portion of the local housing distribution to provide rent
   29  subsidies; however, this does not prohibit the use of funds for
   30  security and utility deposit assistance.
   31         (b) A county or an eligible municipality may expend a
   32  portion of the local housing distribution to provide a one-time
   33  relocation grant to persons who meet the income requirements of
   34  the State Housing Initiatives Partnership Program and who are
   35  subject to eviction from rental property located in the county
   36  or eligible municipality due to the foreclosure of the rental
   37  property. In order to receive a grant under this paragraph, a
   38  person must provide the county or eligible municipality with
   39  proof of meeting the income requirements of a very-low-income
   40  household, a low-income household, or a moderate-income
   41  household; a notice of eviction; and proof that the rent has
   42  been paid for at least 3 months before the date of eviction,
   43  including the month that the notice of eviction was served.
   44  Relocation assistance under this paragraph is limited to a one
   45  time grant of not more than $5,000 and is not limited to persons
   46  who are subject to eviction from projects funded under the State
   47  Housing Initiatives Partnership Program. This paragraph expires
   48  July 1, 2010.
   49         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2009.