Bill Text: NY S01917 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring the Department of Homeless Services to notify the affected community board prior to locating transitional housing for the homeless; requires written notification sixty days before the department enters into a contractual arrangement with a transitional housing provider or otherwise finalizes its decision to use or expand a location as transitional housing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-27 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO SOCIAL SERVICES [S01917 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01917-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1917

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities 1

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  administrative code of the city of New York, in
          relation to requiring the Department of Homeless  Services  to  notify
          the  affected  community  board prior to locating transitional housing
          for the homeless

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
     2  by adding a new section 21-324.1 to read as follows:
     3    § 21-324.1 Community notification requirement. 1. When the  department
     4  intends to use a new location as transitional housing for eligible home-
     5  less  families  and  individuals,  or  expand an existing location where
     6  transitional housing is provided, the commissioner shall provide notifi-
     7  cation in writing to the community board for the community  district  in
     8  which  the  transitional  housing  will be located. Such notice shall be
     9  provided at least  sixty  days  before  the  department  enters  into  a
    10  contractual  arrangement  with a transitional housing provider or other-
    11  wise finalizes its decision to use or expand a location as  transitional
    12  housing.
    13    2.  The  notification  shall  include  the address of the transitional
    14  housing, the number of people who will be housed, the name of the person
    15  or entity operating the transitional housing, the name of any  organiza-
    16  tion,  whether  for-profit  or  not-for-profit,  that  will be providing
    17  services to the occupants of the transitional housing, the type of tran-
    18  sitional housing, a description of the services that will  be  provided,
    19  the  rationale  for  choosing such location, and an approximate schedule
    20  for when such transitional housing will be used or expanded.
    21    3. This section shall apply to any transitional housing facility oper-
    22  ated or contracted for, by or on behalf of the department, regardless of
    23  its size and capacity.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05275-01-3