thirty per cent of their adjusted gross income, less a utility allowance and the base rent”, effective July 1, 1996; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-2 eliminated references to elderly persons in the program of rental assistance, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 05-280 added new Subsec. (d) re designating a portion of available rental assistance certificates for supportive housing units and requiring that rental assistance certificates issued for such purpose adhere to requirements of federal Housing Choice Voucher program and redesignated existing Subsecs. (d) to (f), inclusive, as new Subsecs. (e) to (g), inclusive, effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 06-7 amended Subsec. (d) by deleting references to “certificates”, effective April 21, 2006; P.A. 09-118 added Subsec. (h) re right to a hearing; pursuant to P.A. 13-234, reference to Commissioner of Social Services was changed editorially by the Revisors to reference to Commissioner of Housing in Subsec. (a), effective June 19, 2013; Sec. 17b-812 transferred to Sec. 8-345 in 2015; P.A. 15-29 amended Subsec. (h) by replacing reference to Ch. 54 with reference to Sec. 8-37gg re right to hearing; P.A. 23-207 amended Subsec. (e) to direct the Commissioner of Housing to expend all funds appropriated to the program on an annual basis; P.A. 24-143 amended Subsec. (a) to define “housing” and “housing unit”, and amended Subsec. (e) to require Commissioner of Housing to use higher of fair market rent for housing unit established under federal Housing Choice Voucher Program or maximum allowable rent in municipality in which housing unit is located under rental assistance program.